27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
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And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? …
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. …
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-34)There is scarcely any one sin against which our Lord Jesus more largely and earnestly warns his disciples, or against which he arms them with more variety of arguments, than the sin of disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of life, which are a bad sign that both the treasure and the heart are on the earth ; and therefore he thus largely insists upon it. Here is, I. The prohi…
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