Matthew 6:25

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1395 Therfor I seie to you, that ye be not bisi to youre lijf, what ye schulen ete; nether to youre bodi, with what ye schulen be clothid. Whether lijf is not more than meete, and the bodie more than cloth? (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1534 Therfore I saye vnto you be not carefull for your lyfe what ye shall eate or what ye shall drincke nor yet for youre body what ye shall put on. ys not ye lyfe more worth then meate and the body more of value then raymeut? (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
1535 Therfore I saye vnto you: be not ye carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for youre body, what ye shal put on. Ys not the lyfe more worth the meate, and the body more of value then raymet? (Coverdale Bible)
1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1540 Therfore I saye vnto you: be not carefull for youre lyfe, what ye shall eate or drincke, nor yet for youre bodye, what rayment ye shall put on. Is not the lyfe more worth then meat: and the body more of value then rayment? (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1549 Therfore I saie vnto you, be not tareful for you life what ye shall eate or what ye shall dryncke, nor yet for your bodye, what ye shall put on, is not the lyfe more worthe then meate, and the body more of value then rayment? (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
1560
1568 Therfore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or drynke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the lyfe more worth then meate? & the body then rayment? (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
1572 (Bishop's Bible)
1582 (Rheims 1582)
1587 Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment? (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1611 Therfore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, nor yet for your body, what yee shall put on: Is not the life more then meate? and the body then raiment? (King James Version)
1729 I therefore direct you, not to be sollicitous, with regard to life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor with regard to the body, what clothes ye shall wear: Is not life it self a greater gift than food; and the body a greater gift than rayment? (Mace New Testament)
1745 Therefore I say unto you, Be not sollicitous for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
1762 (King James Version)
1769 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
1770 therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than raiment? (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
1790 Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take not thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
1795 For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment? (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
1833 Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
1835 Therefore I charge you, be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body more than raiment? (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
1849 WHEREFORE I say unto you, Let not your souls be anxious what you shall eat and what you shall drink, and for your bodies what you shall wear. Is not the life more excellent than food, and the body than raiment? (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)
1850 (King James Version by Committee)
1851 (Murdock Translation)
1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society
1858 On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing? (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
1865 For this I say to you: Not be over careful the life of you, what you may eat, and what you may drink; nor to the body of you, what you may put on. Not the life more is the food, and the body the clothing? (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)
1865 For this cause I say to you, take not thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
1869 Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
1873 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
1885 Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
1890 For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
1898 `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)
1901 Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
1902 For this cause, I say unto you: Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat [or what ye shall drink], ––or for your body, what ye shall put on: Is not, the life, more than, the food? And, the body, than, the raiment? (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
1902 Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment? (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
1904 Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink; nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
1904 That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here—what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body—what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing? (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
1911 (Syrus Scofield)
1912 For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing? (Weymouth New Testament)
1918 For this reason I say to you: Be not anxious for your life what you shall eat, nor for your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing? (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
1982 (New King James Version) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
1984 (New International Version)(NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
1999 (American King James Version)AKJV
2000 (King James 2000 Bible©)
2005 (Today’s New International Version)
(BBE)
2009 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)(HCSB) Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
(21st Century King James Version) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
(Common English Bible) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
(GOD’S WORD Translation)(GW) Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
(Contemporary English Version)(CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
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(Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

Afrikaans

1933 (Ta Biblia Ta Logia - J. D. du Toit, E. E. van Rooyen, J. D. Kestell, H. C. M. Fourie, and BB Keet
1953
1982 Paraphrase - Die Lewende Bybel, Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy (CUM)
1982 South African Bible Society - E. P. Groenewald, A. H. van Zyl, P. A. Verhoef, J. L. Helberg, and W. Kempen
1983 © Bybelgenootskap van Suid Afrika
2001 The Nuwe Wêreld-vertaling van die Heilige Skrif is an Afrikaans translation of the 1984 English translation of the Bible by the Watchtower Society.
2002 Die Boodskap
2002 DieBybel@Kinders.co.za - Gert Prinsloo, Phil Botha, Willem Boshoff, Hennie Stander, Dirk Human, Stephan Joubert, and Jan van der Watt.
2006 The Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (literally "New Living Translation")
2008 Bybel vir Almal - South African Bible Society, Bart Oberholzer, Bernard Combrink, Hermie van Zyl, Francois Tolmie, Christo van der Merwe, Rocco Hough en Elmine Roux.
2014 Direct Translation, South African Bible Society
2014 Afrikaans Standard Version, CUM Books

Akan

Albabian

Amuzgo de Guerrero

1973 Amuzgo de Guerrero (AMU) Copyright © 1973, 1999 by La Liga Biblica
1999

Armenian

Arabic

1516
1591
1616
1622
1671 Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by Abraham Ecchellensis and Louis Maracci
لذلك اقول لكم لا تهتموا لحياتكم بما تاكلون وبما تشربون. ولا لاجسادكم بما تلبسون. أليست الحياة افضل من الطعام والجسد افضل من اللباس. (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)
1988 Arabic Life Application Bible (ALAB) Copyright © 1988 by Biblica
2009 Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) Copyright © 2009 by World Bible Translation Center

Aramaic/Syriac

ܡܛܠ ܗܢܐ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܠܐ ܬܐܨܦܘܢ ܠܢܦܫܟܘܢ ܡܢܐ ܬܐܟܠܘܢ ܘܡܢܐ ܬܫܬܘܢ ܘܠܐ ܠܦܓܪܟܘܢ ܡܢܐ ܬܠܒܫܘܢ ܠܐ ܗܐ ܢܦܫܐ ܝܬܝܪܐ ܡܢ ܤܝܒܪܬܐ ܘܦܓܪܐ ܡܢ ܠܒܘܫܐ (Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

1571 Halacotz erraiten drauçuet, eztuçuen artharic çuen vicitzeaz, cer ianen duçuen eta cer edanen: ezeta çuen gorputzaz, cerçaz veztituren çareten: ezta vicia viandá baino guehiago, eta abillamendua baino gorputza?

Bulgarian

1940 Затова ви казвам: Не се безпокойте за живота си, какво ще ядете или какво ще пиете, нито за тялото си, какво ще облечете. Не е ли животът повече от храната, и тялото от облеклото? (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
Затова ви казвам: Не се безпокойте за живота си, какво ще ядете или какво ще пиете, нито за тялото си, какво ще облечете. Не е ли животът повече от храната, и тялото от облеклото? (Матей 6:25) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
6:25 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

1613

Danish

Dutch

1619

Esperanto

Finnish

French

C'est pourquoi je vous dis: Ne soyez pas en souci pour votre vie, de ce que vous mangerez et de ce que vous boirez, ni pour votre corps, de quoi vous serez vêtus: la vie n'est-elle pas plus que la nourriture, et le corps plus que le vêtement? (French Darby)
1744 C'est pourquoi je vous dis : ne soyez point en souci pour votre vie, de ce que vous mangerez, et de ce que vous boirez; ni pour votre corps, de quoi vous serez vêtus; la vie n'est-elle pas plus que la nourriture, et le corps plus que le vêtement? (Martin 1744)
1744 C'est pourquoi je vous dis: Ne soyez point en souci pour votre vie, de ce que vous mangerez, et de ce que vous boirez; ni pour votre corps, de quoi vous serez vêtus. La vie n'est-elle pas plus que la nourriture, et le corps plus que le vêtement? (Ostervald 1744)
1864 (Augustin Crampon)
1910
2006 (King James Française)

German

1545 Darum sage ich euch: Sorget nicht für euer Leben, was ihr essen und trinken werdet, auch nicht für euren Leib, was ihr anziehen werdet. Ist nicht das Leben mehr denn die Speise und der Leib mehr denn die Kleidung? (Luther 1545)
1871 Deshalb sage ich euch: Seid nicht besorgt für euer Leben, was ihr essen und was ihr trinken sollt, noch für euren Leib, was ihr anziehen sollt. Ist nicht das Leben mehr als die Speise, und der Leib mehr als die Kleidung? (Elberfelder 1871)
1912 Darum sage ich euch: Sorget nicht für euer Leben, was ihr essen und trinken werdet, auch nicht für euren Leib, was ihr anziehen werdet. Ist nicht das Leben mehr denn Speise? und der Leib mehr denn die Kleidung? (Luther 1912)

Greek

1904 (Greek Orthodox (B. Antoniades))
Modern Greek (Trinitarian Bible Society)

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

1649 Perciò, io vi dico: Non siate con ansietà solleciti per la vita vostra, di che mangerete, o di che berrete; nè per lo vostro corpo, di che vi vestirete; non è la vita più che il nutrimento, e il corpo più che il vestire? (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
1927 Perciò vi dico: Non siate con ansietà solleciti per la vita vostra di quel che mangerete o di quel che berrete; né per il vostro corpo di che vi vestirete. Non è la vita più del nutrimento, e il corpo più del vestito? (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

1928

Latin

ideo dico vobis ne solliciti sitis animae vestrae quid manducetis neque corpori vestro quid induamini nonne anima plus est quam esca et corpus plus est quam vestimentum Latin Vulgate
1527 (Erasmus 1527)
1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)
1565 (Beza)
1598 (Beza)

Latvian

Maori

1833
1837
1858
1868 (Formal translation based on the Greek 'Received Text': Trinitarian Bible Society)
1833
1952

Norwegian

1930

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Portugese

Potawatomi

1833 (Potawatomi Matthew and Acts)

Romainian

1551 (Slavic-Romanian Gospel)
1561 (Coresi's Gospel)
1570 (The Braşov Psalm Book) Psalms Only
1582 (Palia from Orăştie)
1648 (The New Testament of Alba Iulia)
1688 (Biblia de la Bucureşti - Bucharest Bible)
1911 (Nitzulescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1921 (Cornilescu)
1924 (Cornilescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1989 (Gute Botschaft Verlag)
2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna - Textus Receptus Based)
2013 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Cornilescu 90th anniversary definitive edition - British and Foreign Bible Society)
2015 Din această cauză vă spun:Nu vă îngrijoraţi de viaţa voastră,ce veţi mânca sau ce veţi bea;nici de trupul vostru, ce veţi îmbrăca.Nu este viaţa mai mult decâtmâncarea şi trupul mai multdecât îmbrăcămintea? (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna)

Russian

1876 Посему говорю вам: не заботьтесь для души вашей, что вам есть и что пить, ни для тела вашего, во что одеться. Душа не больше ли пищи, и тело одежды? Russian Synodal Version
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Sanskrit

1851

Shur

Spanish

See Also Bible translations (Spanish)

1543 (Francisco de Enzinas New Testament)
1556 (Juan Perez de Pineda New Testament and book of Psalms)
1569 (Sagradas Escrituras)
1814 Valera Revision
1817 Valera Revision
1831 Valera Revision
1858 Reina Valera
1862 Valera Revision
1865 Valera Revision (American Bible Society Revisión)
1869 Valera Revision
1909 (Reina-Valera) Antigua Spanish Bible
1960 Versión Reina-Valera (Eugene Nida )
1987 Translation from English. Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
1994 Nuevo Testamento versión Recobro
1997 (La Biblia de las Américas) (©1997)
1999 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
2002 (1602 Purificada)
2009 Santa Biblia: Reina-Valera
1 (Reina Valera Gómez)

Swahili

Ndiyo maana nawaambieni, msiwe na wasiwasi juu ya chakula na kinywaji mnavyohitaji ili kuishi, wala juu ya mavazi mnayohitaji kwa ajili ya miili yenu. Je, maisha ni chakula tu au zaidi? Na mwili, je, si zaidi ya mavazi?

Swedish

1917 Därför säger jag eder: Gören eder icke bekymmer för edert liv, vad I skolen äta eller dricka, ej heller för eder kropp, vad I skolen kläda eder med. Är icke livet mer än maten, och kroppen mer än kläderna? (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 Kaya nga sinasabi ko sa inyo, Huwag kayong mangabalisa sa inyong pamumuhay, kung ano baga ang inyong kakanin, o kung ano ang inyong iinumin; kahit ang sa inyong katawan, kung ano ang inyong daramtin. Hindi baga mahigit ang buhay kay sa pagkain, at ang katawan kay sa pananamit? (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Thai

(Thai KJV)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

1878 (Hindustani Roman Script)
1938 (Urdu Revised Version. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1938)
2016 (Urdu Bible)

Vietnamese

1934 Vậy nên ta phán cùng các ngươi rằng: đừng vì sự sống mình mà lo đồ ăn uống; cũng đừng vì thân thể mình mà lo đồ mặc. Sự sống há chẳng quí trọng hơn đồ ăn sao, thân thể há chẳng quí trọng hơn quần áo sao? (Ma-thi-ô 6:25 Vietnamese Bible) (VIET)

Welsh

1567 (William Salesbury, printed in 1567 by Humphrey Toy)
1588 (William Morgan)
1620 (William Morgan)
1824
1988 (New Welsh Bible)
2004
2011 (beibl.net 2011 by Arfon Jones)

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