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Selected Verse: Matthew 6:31 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mt 6:31 |
Strong Concordance |
Therefore [3767] take no [3361] thought [3309], saying [3004], What [5101] shall we eat [5315]? or [2228], What [5101] shall we drink [4095]? or [2228], Wherewithal [5101] shall we be clothed [4016]? |
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King James |
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Therefore take no thought--solicitude.
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
take no thought
Or, have no anxiety. (Mat 6:34). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Therefore take not thought - How kind are these precepts! The substance of which is only this, Do thyself no harm! Let us not be so ungrateful to him, nor so injurious to ourselves, as to harass and oppress our minds with that burden of anxiety, which he has so graciously taken off. Every verse speaks at once to the understanding, and to the heart. We will not therefore indulge these unnecessary, these useless, these mischievous cares. We will not borrow the anxieties and distresses of the morrow, to aggravate those of the present day. Rather we will cheerfully repose ourselves on that heavenly Father, who knows we have need of these things; who has given us the life, which is more than meat, and the body, which is more than raiment. And thus instructed in the philosophy of our heavenly Master, we will learn a lesson of faith and cheer. fulness from every bird of the air, and every flower of the field. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? etc. - These three inquiries engross the whole attention of those who are living without God in the world. The belly and back of a worldling are his compound god; and these he worships in the lust of the flesh, in the lust of the eye, and in the pride of life. |
34 Take [3309] therefore [3767] no [3361] thought [3309] for [1519] the morrow [839]: for [1063] the morrow [839] shall take thought [3309] for the things [3588] of itself [1438]. Sufficient [713] unto the day [2250] is the evil [2549] thereof [846].