Matthew 6:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Matthew 6:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 12:25-26
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? …
Ecclesiastes 3:14
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.
Matthew 5:36
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Psalms 39:5-6
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. …
1 Corinthians 12:18
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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Commentary

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 prohib…

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

(vv. 27)

27. Which of you, by taking thought--anxious solicitude. can add one cubit unto his stature?--“Stature” can hardly be the thing intended here: first, because the subject is the prolongation of life, by the supply of its necessaries of food and clothing: and next, because no one would dream of adding a cubit--or a foot and a half--to his stature, while in the corresponding passage in Luke (Lu 12:25…