Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- KJV Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
- NKJV casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
- NASB having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you.
- NLT Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
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Quick answer
Believers can cast all their anxieties on God because He genuinely cares for them. It invites the worried to entrust their burdens to a caring Father.
Overview
This verse flows directly from the call to humility: handing one's cares to God is itself an act of humble trust. The grounds for doing so is simply that 'he cares for you,' a personal assurance of God's loving concern. Even in suffering, believers rest in the care of the God who is sovereign over all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Phil 4:6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Ps 37:5Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- Ps 56:3–4When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
- Matt 6:25–26Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Matt 6:33–34But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Heb 13:5–6Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Luke 12:22Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
- Ps 27:13–14Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
- Luke 12:30–32For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
- Ps 142:4–5Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Luke 12:11–12When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
- Mark 4:38But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
- 1 Sam 1:10–18In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
- John 10:13The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.
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