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29 “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin?[a] Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:29 An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:29 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

But as it is written,

“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
    which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
    these God has prepared for those who love him.”Isaiah 64:4

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Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”Deuteronomy 31:6

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