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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路加福音 12:27

你們想想百合花,怎樣不勞苦,也不紡織。但我告訴你們,就是所羅門最榮華的時候所穿的,也比不上這花中的一朵呢。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Care;   Commandments;   Faith;   Jesus, the Christ;   Lily;   Solomon;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Lily;   The Topic Concordance - Anxiety;   Doubt;   Seeking;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anxiety;   Life;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Lily;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anxiety;   Community of Goods;   Ethics;   Flowers;   Luke, Gospel of;   Plants in the Bible;   Solomon;   Spinning and Weaving;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lily;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Beauty;   Care ;   Character;   Covetousness;   Doctrines;   Eating and Drinking;   Flowers;   Growing;   Guest;   Labour (2);   Lily;   Mental Characteristics;   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Perplexity;   Property (2);   Providence;   Renunciation;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Sermon on the Mount;   Solomon;   Spinning;   Trades;   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lily,;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lily;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Glory;   Lily;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Array;   Consider;   Flowers;   Lily;   Sons of God (New Testament);   Spinning;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Lord's Prayer, the;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 14;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 想 百 合 花 怎 麽 长 起 来 ; 他 也 不 劳 苦 , 也 不 纺 线 。 然 而 我 告 诉 你 们 , 就 是 所 罗 门 极 荣 华 的 时 候 , 他 所 穿 戴 的 , 还 不 如 这 花 一 朵 呢 !

Contextual Overview

22 Jesus said to his followers, "So I tell you, don't worry about the food you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. 23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. 24 Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest, they don't have storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you are worth much more than birds. 25 You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. 26 If you cannot do even the little things, then why worry about the big things? 27 Consider how the lilies grow; they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. 28 God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So how much more will God clothe you? Don't have so little faith! 29 Don't always think about what you will eat or what you will drink, and don't keep worrying. 30 All the people in the world are trying to get these things, and your Father knows you need them. 31 But seek God's kingdom, and all your other needs will be met as well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the lilies: Luke 12:24, Matthew 6:28-30, James 1:10, James 1:11

that: 1 Kings 10:1-13, 2 Chronicles 9:1-12

Reciprocal: Hosea 14:5 - he shall Luke 12:6 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Consider the lilies how they grow,.... Some copies read, "the lilies of the field", as in Matthew 6:28 The Persic version renders the word, "the roses and lilies of the field": and the Arabic version, the "flowers"; any flowers of the field; for what is afterwards said, is true of any of them, but particularly of the lilies: now, as the former instance of God's feeding the ravens is designed to remove all anxious and distressing thoughts about food for the body; this is mentioned to take off every thing of that kind with respect to clothing for it; wherefore, in Matthew, these words are premised to it, "and why take ye thought for raiment?" there will be no need of it, when it considered how the lilies, or tulips, or any other flowers grow up out of the earth, and in what a fine beautiful dress they appear, without any care or labour of their own, and even without the care and management of a gardener; for flowers of the field are here meant:

they toil not, they spin not; they neither labour as men do, in sowing flax, and dressing it, or in combing of wool, or in spinning of either:

and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. The Ethiopic version renders it, "in the whole time of his glory"; throughout his glorious reign, at any time; whenever upon any extraordinary occasion he was dressed out in the finest manner, yet even then a lily outdid him; its glory being natural to it, whereas his, at best, was but artificial, and an imitation of nature; Matthew 6:28- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:25-33.


 
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