Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Matthew 6:25-34
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the Rich Fool.
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the Rich Fool.
MATTHEW 6:25 @h' ti, pi,hte# {C} In favor of the shorter reading, lacking h' ti, pi,hte, is the possibility that the text was assimilated to ver. Matthew 6:31. The variation between...
Verse Matthew 6:25. _THEREFORE_] δια τουτο, _on this account_; viz., that ye may not serve _mammon_, but have unshaken confidence in God, _I say unto you_,- _TAKE NO THOUGHT_] Be not anxiously caref...
THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT ... - The general design of this paragraph, which closes the chapter, is to warn his disciples against avarice, and, at the same time, against anxiety about t...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE. At the time the Common Version was made, in the reign of King James, the expression "Take thought" meant to be anxious, to have gloomy forebodings. Many examples of such...
I tell you, therefore, do not worry about your life, about what you are to eat, or what you are to drink; and do not worry about your body, about what you are to wear. Is not your life more than food,...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
AS TO CARES, ETC. THEREFORE. On account of this (Greek. _dia._ App-104.Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:2). TAKE NO THOUGHT. Be not careful: i.e. full of care, or overanxious. Compare verses: Matthew 6:27;...
_Therefore_ i. e. because this double service is impossible there must be no distraction of thought. _Take no thought_ "Do not be anxious," which was the meaning of "take no thought," when the E. V. w...
The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the "Rich Fool....
VER 25. "THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK; NOR YET FOR YOUR BODY, WHAT YE SHALL PUT ON. IS NOT THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY T...
_THE ACTIONS OF SHINNING, SERVING AND LIVING MATTHEW 6:22-34:_ God's desire is for our "whole body to be full of light." A good eye leads to a shinning life. A bad eye will lead to a life of darkness....
ΜΕΡΙΜΝΆΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΕΡΙΜΝΆΩ (G3309) заботиться о чем-л., тревожиться из-за чего-л., думать о чем-л., задумываться (Sand). Imper. с _Отр.._ ΜΉ (G3361) должен пресечь происходящее действ...
DISCOURSE: 1324 AGAINST CAREFULNESS Matthew 6:25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is no...
THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT, &C.— _Be not solicitous_ [and so wherever it occurs]. _Is not the life more than food?_ The Greek μεριμνατε, imports such anxietyas causes an intestine strif...
E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:19-34) TEXT 6:19-34 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21) 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raim...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
TAKE NO THOUGHT] RV 'be not anxious': cp. 1 Peter 5:7....
THE CHRISTIAN'S FREEDOM FROM CARE AND ANXIETY (Luke 12:22). The worldly man is oppressed with care. He is always in fear that his deep-laid plans for the future will miscarry, that some object that he...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
TAKE NO THOUGHT. — The Greek word some times thus translated, and sometimes by “care” or “be careful” (1 Corinthians 7:32; Philippians 2:20; Philippians 4:6), expresses anxiety, literally, the care wh...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34, with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36). An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
_Counsels against care_. More suitable to the circumstances of the disciples than those against amassing treasures. “Why speak of treasures to us who are not even sure of the necessaries of life? It i...
Matthew 6:25, διὰ τοῦτο : because ye can be unfaithful to God through care as well as through covetousness. μὴ μεριμνᾶτε : μέριμνα from μερίς, μερίζω, because care divides and distracts the mind. The...
WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say that...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
(9) Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than r...
A prudent provision is not prohibited, but that over-solicitude which draws the soul, the heart, and its affections from God, and his sweet all-ruling providence, to sink and degrade them in empty pur...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Who can add to the beauties, as well as doctrines of...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_LESSONS FROM NATURE_ ‘Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.’ Matthew 6:25 ‘Take no though...
_THE LAW OF PROPORTION_ ‘Is not the life more than meat?’ Matthew 6:25 I. A LAW OF PROPORTION.—It is necessary that there should be the _ distinction of greater and less_ in the business of life. I...
Throughout the whole of this discourse, Christ reproves that _excessive _anxiety, with which men torment themselves, about food and clothing, and, at the same time, applies a remedy for curing this di...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE,.... Since ye cannot serve both God and "mammon", obey one, and neglect the other. Christ does not forbid labour to maintain, support, and prese...
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raime...
_Therefore I say, Take no thought_, &c. Our Lord here proceeds to caution his disciples against worldly _cares_, these being as inconsistent with the true service of God as worldly _desires._ But the...
TAKE NO THOUGHT; no anxious thought, as the original word implies. MORE; more valuable. MEAT; any kind of food for the support of the body. The argument is, that he who has given the greater gift, w...
Counsel against worry about food and clothing: THEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK, NOR YET FOR YOUR BODY, WHAT YE SHALL PUT ON. IS NOT T...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
25-34 There is scarcely any sin against which our Lord Jesus more warns his disciples, than disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of this life. This often insnares the poor as...
This text must not be interpreted in a sense contradictory to those many other texts, which forbid an idle life, an command us in the sweat of our face to eat our bread, or to provide for our families...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus that our nature was unable to attain to life, and having now revealed the Saviour who is able to save even those things which it was [formerly] impossible to save, by...
Matthew 6:25 Therefore G1223 G5124 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 worry G3361 G3309 (G5720) your...
a “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, b What you shall eat, or what you shall drink, b Nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. b Is not the life more than the food, and...
Matthew 6:25. THEREFORE. Because of the precept just given. Anxiety, which is distrust of God, is the source of avarice. Living to God is the proper life, and it relieves from care, because we trust H...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between ‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves tre...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
BE NOT ANXIOUS FOR YOUR LIFE (μη μεριμνατε τη ψυχη υμων). This is as good a translation as the Authorized Version was poor; "Take no thought for your life." The old English word "thought" meant anx...
Matthew 6:25 In Matthew 6:25 we have an argument against giving place to the cares of this world, on the ground that they are unworthy of an immortal being like man; and also an illustration pointedl...
Matthew 6:24 I. Anxious thought is contrary to the teaching of nature. (1) You are obliged to trust God for your body, for its structure, for its form, for its habitudes, and for the length of your be...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
DO NOT BE WORRIED. Christ does not here forbid looking to the future and being ready to meet its challenge. But you should avoid being "worried sick" about material things that are continually being u...
_Take no thought._ TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW 1. The question arises, Is not the Christian character a provident one? 2. All this is done to drive us to live by the day: to let the day’s affair...
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:25. THEREFORE.—Denoting a connection between the service of mammon and “taking thought.” TAKE NO THOUGHT.—_Be not anxious_ (R.V.). Life.—The Greek word is the same as that...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 Corinthians 7:32; 1 Peter 5:7; 2 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 13:5; Hebr
Take no thought [μ η μ ε ρ ι μ ν α τ ε]. The cognate noun is merimna, care, which was formerly derived from meriv, a part; merixw, to divide; and was explained accordingly as a dividing care, distract...
FIRST THINGS FIRST Matthew 6:24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What God puts first, we may not put second. There are some things that have our first thought, our first consideration. There are some other things...
And if you serve God, you need be careful for nothing. Therefore take not thought — That is, be not anxiously careful. Beware of worldly cares; for these are as inconsistent with the true service of G...
The next sin which our Saviour cautions his disciples against, is immoderate care for the things of this life, such. solicitous and vexatious care for food and raiment as is accompanied with diffidenc...