Luke 12:28 (DRB)

Passage

Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

Nearby Context

Luke 12:26 If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

Luke 12:28 Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

Luke 12:29 And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.

Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "clothe", "manner", "grass", "to-day", "field", "to-morrow", and "cast". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "clothe", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 27's "Consider the lilies how they grow they..." into verse 29's "And seek not what you shall eat...", so "faith" and "clothe" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "clothe" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.