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Matthew 6:27
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Matthew 6:27
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
27Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his stature?
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 6:27
Laying hold of, receiving, seizing, capturing, accepting, or choosing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Anxiety or excessive care; 'take thought' means to be anxious.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To join or put with something else; to increase by bringing or giving more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The natural height or size of a person or body; also maturity or standing.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
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Open the full verse study14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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Open the full verse study36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
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Open the full verse study18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
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