Luke 12:26

26 If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

Luke 12:26 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 12:26

If ye then be not able to do that which is least
As to make the smallest addition to a man's stature, or rather to add one moment to his days:

why take ye thought for the rest?
which are much greater, as to preserve the body in its whole bulk, and all its parts, or for the feeding and clothing of it, or rather for the continuation and preservation of life to any length of time; for if it cannot be by all a man's care and solicitude lengthened out one moment longer than is the pleasure of God, how should it be by such anxiety continued for months and years?

Luke 12:26 In-Context

24 Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

25 And which of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment to his life?

26 If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

27 Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin. And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was as beautifully dressed as one of these.

28 But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!