But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows. Treasury of Scripture even. Luke 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. 1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD lives... 2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more... Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Acts 27:34 Why I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. ye are. Job 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? Psalm 8:6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet: Isaiah 43:3,4 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you... 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 feeds them... Matthew 10:31 Fear you not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.
Context A Warning Against Hypocrisy
1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they stepped one on another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, Beware you of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed on the housetops. 4And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him. 6Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? 7But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows. 8Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 10And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. 11And when they bring you to the synagogues, and to magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say: 12For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
Darby Bible Translation
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.
King James Bible
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Young's Literal Translation
but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.
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