Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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Gill's Exposition
Be careful for nothing,.... This must be understood not in the most extensive sense, but with a limitation and restriction. There are many things that saints are to be careful for, as men and…
Barnes' Notes
Be careful for nothing - That is, be not anxious or solicitous about the things of the present life. The word used here - μεριμνᾶτε merimnate - does not mean that we are to exercise no care about…
Adam Clarke
Be careful for nothing - Μηδεν μεριμνατε· Be not anxiously solicitous; do not give place to carking care, let what will occur; for anxiety cannot chance the state or condition of any thing from bad to…
The apostle begins the chapter with exhortations to divers Christian duties.
I. To stedfastness in our Christian profession, Phi 4:1. It is inferred from the close of the foregoing chapter: Therefore…
Cambridge Bible
Be careful for nothing Better, in modern English, In nothing be anxious (R.V.). Wyclif, "be ye no thing bisie"; all the other older English versions are substantially as A.V.; Luther, Sorget nichts;…
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