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Green's Literal Translation

Luke 12:7

But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Then stop being afraid; you differ from many sparrows.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Hair;   Jesus, the Christ;   Minister, Christian;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Care, Divine;   Divine;   God;   Overshadowing Providence;   Providence, Divine;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leaven;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Meshach;   Sparrow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Luke, Gospel of;   Sparrow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Sparrow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   Character;   Consolation;   Hair (2);   Hypocrisy;   Ideas (Leading);   Manuscripts;   Oppression;   Physical ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sparrow,;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sparrow;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Number (and forms);   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sparrow;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hair;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Omnipotence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
King James Version (1611)
But euen the very haires of your head are all numbred: Feare not therefore, ye are of more value then many sparrowes.
King James Version
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
English Standard Version
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
New American Standard Bible
"But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
New Century Version
But God even knows how many hairs you have on your head. Don't be afraid. You are worth much more than many sparrows.
Amplified Bible
"Indeed the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are far more valuable than many sparrows.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Legacy Standard Bible
Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Berean Standard Bible
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Contemporary English Version
Even the hairs on your head are counted. So don't be afraid! You are worth much more than many sparrows.
Complete Jewish Bible
Why, every hair on your head has been counted! Don't be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.
Darby Translation
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, God even knows how many hairs you have on your head. Don't be afraid. You are worth much more than many birds.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred: feare not therefore: yee are more of value then many sparowes.
George Lamsa Translation
But so far as you are concerned, even the hairs of your head are all numbered; therefore fear not, because you are much more important than many sparrows.
Good News Translation
Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!
Lexham English Bible
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
American Standard Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Bible in Basic English
But even the hairs of your head are numbered. Have no fear: you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.
Hebrew Names Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
International Standard Version
Why, even all the hairs on your head have been counted! Stop being afraid. You are worth more than a bunch of sparrows."
Etheridge Translation
But of you, the numbers of the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; than many sparrows more precious are you.
Murdock Translation
And as for you, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; for ye are superior to many sparrows.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Also, eue the very heeres of your head are all numbred. Feare not therfore, ye are more of value the many sparrowes.
English Revised Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
World English Bible
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Weymouth's New Testament
But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also alle the heeris of youre heed ben noumbrid. Therfor nyle ye drede; ye ben of more prijs than many sparowis.
Update Bible Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid: you are of more value than many sparrows.
Webster's Bible Translation
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
New English Translation
In fact, even the hairs on your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
New King James Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
New Living Translation
And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.
New Life Bible
God knows how many hairs you have on your head. Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many small birds.
New Revised Standard
But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, even the hairs of your head, have all been numbered: Be not afraid: many sparrows, ye excel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
Revised Standard Version
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The very hayres of youre heade also are nombred euery one. Feare not therfore, for ye are better then many sparowes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
nay, the very hairs of your head can't fall without being number'd: be not then afraid; there is no comparison between you and sparrows.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The Boss has numbered the hairs on your head, so you don't have to be afraid. You are worth more than all the birds in the world.

Contextual Overview

1 At which time the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing which has been completely concealed which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not be known. 3 Therefore, whatever you said in the darkness will be heard in the light; and whatever you spoke in the ear in the secret rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. 4 But I say to you, My friends, stop being afraid of the ones killing the body, and after these things not having anything more they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear; fear the One who after the killing has authority to cast into Hell; yea, I say to you, Fear that One! 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? And not one of them has been forgotten before God. 7 But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Then stop being afraid; you differ from many sparrows. 8 But I say to you, Everyone who may confess Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God. 9 But he that denies me before man shall be denied before the angels of God. 10 And everyone who shall say a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven Him; but the ones blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

even: Luke 21:18, 1 Samuel 14:45, 2 Samuel 14:11, Matthew 10:30, Acts 27:34

ye are: Job 35:11, Psalms 8:6, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:4, Matthew 6:26, Matthew 10:31

Reciprocal: Matthew 10:29 - two Mark 11:13 - haply Luke 12:24 - how

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah built an altar to Jehovah, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:8
And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 12:9
And Abram pulled up stakes , going on and pulling up stakes toward the Negeb.
Genesis 12:12
And it will be, when the Egyptians see you, then they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, and they will save you alive.
Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. And Abram called on the name of Jehovah there.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed always.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron; and he built an altar to Jehovah there.
Genesis 15:18
On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before me and be perfect;
Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face. And God spoke with him, saying,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered,.... Not only their persons had passed under the hands of him that telleth them, who is the "Palmoni", or "wonderful numberer", as in the margin of Daniel 8:13 and not only the several members of their bodies, or the more substantial parts of them, were written in the book of his purposes, according to which they were fashioned in time, but the more minute parts, and less to be regarded, were all told over, and kept in account; even the very hairs of their head, and not one of them could fall to the ground, any more than a sparrow; or be plucked off by men, without the knowledge and will of God; so careful is the providence of God, of all his people:

fear not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows; for if the hairs of their heads are as much regarded as sparrows, their persons and their lives must be of more account, than an infinite number of them, nor are they to be mentioned with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nothing covered - See the notes at Matthew 10:26-32.

Luke 12:3

Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops - See the notes at Matthew 10:27. The custom of making proclamation from the tops or roofs of houses still prevails in the East. Dr. Thomson (“The Land and the Book,” vol. i. p. 51, 52) says: “At the present day, local governors in country districts cause their commands thus to be published. Their proclamations are generally made in the evening, after the people have returned from their labors in the field. The public crier ascends the highest roof at hand, and lifts up his voice in a long-drawn call upon all faithful subjects to give ear and obey. He then proceeds to announce, in a set form, the will of their master, and demand obedience thereto.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 12:7. Fear not therefore — Want of faith in the providence and goodness of God is the source of all human inquietudes and fears. He has undertaken to save and defend those to the uttermost who trust in him. His wisdom cannot be surprised, his power cannot be forced, his love cannot forget itself. Man distrusts God, and fears that he is forgotten by him, because he judges of God by himself; and he knows that he is apt to forget his Maker, and be unfaithful to him. See on Matthew 10:29-31.


 
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