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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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;...
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ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ, i.e. because this double service is impossible
there must be no distraction of thought.
ΜῊ ΜΕΡΙΜΝΑ͂ΤΕ. ‘Do not be anxious,’ which was the
meaning of ‘take no thought,’ when the E. V. was m...
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The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable
of the Rich Fool....
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TAKE NO THOUGHT] RV 'be not anxious': cp. 1 Peter 5:7....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 6:25 Therefore G1223 G5124 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 worry
G3361 G3309 (G5720) your...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 7:32; 1 Peter 5:7; 2 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 13:5; Hebr
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...