Luke 12:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least. — The words are peculiar to St. Luke’s report. If no amount of anxious care can add one cubit to our stature or the measure of our days (see Notes on Matthew 6:27), how much less can we control all the myriad contingencies upon which the happiness of the future may depend!