Matthew 10:30

George Lamsa Translation

But so far as you are concerned, even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

King James Version (1611)
But the very haires of your head are all numbred.

King James Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

English Standard Version
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

New American Standard Bible
"But even the hairs of your head are all counted.

New Century Version
God even knows how many hairs are on your head.

Amplified Bible
"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered [for the Father is sovereign and has complete knowledge].

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Berean Standard Bible
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Contemporary English Version
Even the hairs on your head are counted.

Complete Jewish Bible
As for you, every hair on your head has been counted.

Darby Translation
but of you even the hairs of the head are all numbered.

Easy-to-Read Version
God even knows how many hairs are on your head.

Good News Translation
As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

Lexham English Bible
And even the hairs of your head are all numbered!

Literal Translation
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

American Standard Version
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Bible in Basic English
But the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Hebrew Names Version
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

International Standard Version
Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted!1 Samuel 14:45; 2 Samuel 14:11; Luke 21:18; Acts 27:34;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But of you, also, the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Murdock Translation
As for you, even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea, euen all the heeres of your head are numbred.

English Revised Version
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

World English Bible
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Yea, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Weymouth's New Testament
But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`And alle the heeris of youre heed ben noumbrid.

Update Bible Version
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

New English Translation
Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.

New King James Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

New Living Translation
And the very hairs on your head are all numbered.

New Life Bible
God knows how many hairs you have on your head.

New Revised Standard
And even the hairs of your head are all counted.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, even the hairs of, your, head, have all been numbered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Revised Standard Version
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And now are all the heeris of youre heedis numbred.

Young's Literal Translation
and of you -- even the hairs of the head are all numbered;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now are all ye hayres of youre heade tolde.

Mace New Testament (1729)
by whom the very hairs of your head are all numbred:

Simplified Cowboy Version
He even knows how many hairs you have underneath your hat.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you like lambs among the wolves; therefore be wise as serpents, and pure as doves. ¹⁷ But be careful of men; for they will deliver you up to the courts, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ And they will bring you before the presence of governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry as to how or what you will speak; for it will be given to you in that very hour what you are to speak. ²⁰ For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father, which speaks through you. ²¹ Brother will deliver up his own brother to death, and father his son; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by everybody because of my name; but he who endures until the end shall live. ²³ When they persecute you in this city, escape to another; for truly I say to you, that you shall not finish converting all the cities of the house of Israel, until the Son of man returns. ²⁴ No disciple is more important than his teacher, and no servant than his master. ²⁵ It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and for a servant to be like his master. If then, they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 14:45, 2 Samuel 14:11, 1 Kings 1:52, Luke 12:7, Luke 21:18, Acts 27:34

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:29 - bound 2 Kings 8:5 - the woman Psalms 36:6 - thou Psalms 56:8 - are they Daniel 3:27 - nor was Acts 18:10 - and no

Cross-References

Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable and said, Balak the king of the Moabites has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, destroy Israel for me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. A proverbial expression, showing the perfect knowledge God has, and the exquisite care he takes, in providence, of all his creatures, particularly men, and especially his dear children and faithful ministers; as not a sparrow, so not a single hair of a man's head falls to the ground without the knowledge, and will of God: a way of speaking sometimes used to signify, that not the least hurt or damage should befall a person; see 1 Samuel 14:45 and the phraseology of the text was in use, and very well known by the Jews; for so they represent God speaking i;

"do not I number all the hairs of every creature?''

As our Lord applies this particularly to his disciples, his sense is, that they had no reason to be afraid of men, or fear anything that should befall them, for their bearing a faithful testimony to him; for, their valuable lives were under the special and peculiar care of divine providence; not only the days, months, and years of their lives were with God, and put down in his book of purposes and decrees, which could neither be shortened nor lengthened; and not only the more principal, and even all the members of their bodies were written in his book of providence, and a singular care taken of them; but even their very excrescences, the more minute parts, and which were of no great account with them, the "hairs" of their head", even "all" of them, were not only known, but numbered", taken account of; yea, the thing was done already, it was not to be done; a very strong way of setting forth the doctrine of divine providence: a doctrine which the Jews were not unacquainted with, who say k;

"that the events of man, and accidents which come upon him,

הכל בידי שמים, "are all by", or "in the hands of God";''

and l that

"nothing is by chance, but all things are בכונת, "with design";''

or, as they elsewhere say m,

"a man does not hurt his finger below, but they proclaim concerning it above;''

that is, as the gloss explains it, גזרו עליו, "it is decreed" concerning it: which comes very near to the phrase here used.

i Pesikta, fol. 18. 4. apud Drusium in loc. k Piske Tosaphot ad Cetubot, art. 119. l Kimchi in Ps. civ. 4. m T. Bab. Cholin, fol. 7. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Are not two sparrows ... - He encourages them not to fear by two striking considerations: first, that God takes care of sparrows, the smallest and least valuable of birds; and, secondly, by the fact that God numbers even the hairs of the head. The argument is, that if He takes care of birds of the least value, if He regards so small a thing as the hair of the head, and numbers it, He will certainly protect and provide for you. You need not, therefore, fear what man can do to you.

Sparrows - The sparrows are well-known birds in Syria. They are small; they are found in great numbers; they are tame, intrusive, and nestle everywhere. “They are extremely pertinacious in asserting their right of possession, and have not the least reverence for any place or thing. David alludes to these characteristics of the sparrow in Psalms 84:1-12, when he complains that they had appropriated even the altars of God for their nests. Concerning himself, he says, I watch, and am as a sparrow upon the housetop, Psalms 102:7. When one of them has lost its mate - a matter of everyday occurrence - he will sit on the housetop alone, and lament by the hour his sad bereavement. These birds are snared and caught in great numbers, but, as they are small, and not much relished for food, five sparrows may still be sold for two farthings; and when we see their countless numbers, and the eagerness with which they are destroyed as a worthless nuisance, we can better appreciate the assurance that our heavenly Father, who takes care of them, so that not one can fall to the ground without his notice, will surely take care of us, who are of more value than many sparrows.” - “The Land and the Book” (Thomson), vol. i. pp. 52, 53.

Farthing - See the notes at Matthew 5:26.

Without your Father - That is, God, your Father, guides and directs its fall. It falls only with His permission, and where He chooses.

Matthew 10:30

The very hairs of your head are all numbered - That is, each one has exercised the care and attention of God.

He has fixed the number; and, though of small importance, yet he does not think it beneath him to determine how few or how many they shall be. He will therefore take care of you.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. — Nothing is more astonishing than the care and concern of God for his followers. The least circumstances of their life are regulated, not merely by that general providence which extends to all things, but by a particular providence, which fits and directs all things to the design of their salvation, causing them all to co-operate for their present and eternal good. Romans 5:1-5.