Luke 12:4-7

Have No Fear

4 "I tell you, my friends, ¹do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him ²who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.^[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him!

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?^[b] And ³not one of them is forgotten before God.

7 Why, ⁴even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; ⁵you are of more value than many sparrows.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 8:12, 13; Isaiah 51:12, 13; Jeremiah 1:8; 1 Peter 3:14
• 2. James 4:12
• 3. [Psalms 50:11]
• 4. See 1 Samuel 14:45
• 5. Matthew 6:26; Matthew 12:12

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek Gehenna
• [b]. Greek two assaria; an assarion was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)