Luke 12:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 10:30-31
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. …
Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Isaiah 43:3-4
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. …
2 Samuel 14:11
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Luke 21:18
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their prejudices and jealousies, still admired him, attended on him, and did him honour. In the mean time (Luke 12:1), while he was in the Pharisee’s house, contending with them that sought to ensnare him,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-7. five ... for two farthings--In Mt 10:29 it is “two for one farthing”; so if one took two farthings’ worth, he got one in addition--of such small value were they. than many sparrows--not “than millions of sparrows”; the charm and power of our Lord’s teaching is very much in this simplicity.