Luke - 12:7



7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 12:7.

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But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.
but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.
But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'
But even the hairs of your head are numbered. Have no fear: you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.
But even the very hairs of your head have all been numbered. Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
No, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

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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 (note).

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.

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