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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 6:30

Matthew 6:30. But if God doth so clothe. ‘If' does not imply doubt. The direct creative purpose and act of God is here assumed.

The grass of the field. Wild flowers belong to the herbage, which is cut down. It withers rapidly and is then fit for fuel, being east into the oven, its beauty gone, even its substance consumed.

Much more. He who adorns the transient wild flower, so that human pomp is mean in comparison, will most assuredly provide for His children, whose being is not for a day, but forever.

O ye of little faith, little faith about what is least, when He has given us the greatest gift, in giving Him who thus teaches us. He joins His lessons of trust to what we see every day, and we need them every day.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 30. _IF GOD SO CLOTHE THE GRASS OF THE FIELD_] Christ confounds both the luxury of the _rich_ in their superfluities, and the distrust of the _poor_ as to the necessaries of life. Let man, who i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the "Rich Fool....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    The parallel passage (Luke 12:22-31) follows immediately the parable of the Rich Fool....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, _shall he_ not much more _clothe_ you, O ye of little faith? Ver. 30. _The grass of the field...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 6:30 Now G1161 if G1487 God G2316 so G3779 clothes G294 (G5719) grass G5528 field G68 today...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

    HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW. Scarcity of fuel made dried grass and weeds a vital source to heat ovens. If God gives such beauty to so temporary a things as this, will he not take care of you?...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:24; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The grass of the field — is a general expression, including both herbs and flowers. Into the still — This is the natural sense of the passage. For it can hardly be supposed that grass or flowers shoul...

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