Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- BSB Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares 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 thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
- Phil 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
- Ps 37:5Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
- Ps 56:3–4What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
- Matt 6:25–26Therefore 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 raiment?
- Matt 6:33–34But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
- Heb 13:5–6Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
- Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
- Luke 12:22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
- Ps 27:13–14I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
- Luke 12:30–32For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
- Ps 142:4–5I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
- Luke 12:11–12And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
- Mark 4:38And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
- 1 Sam 1:10–18And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
- John 10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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