Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about 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.
- 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.
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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.
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Cross-references · 17
- Ps 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
- Phil 4:6In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- Ps 37:5Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
- Ps 56:3–4When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
- Matt 6:25–26Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Matt 6:33–34But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Heb 13:5–6Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
- Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Luke 12:22He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Ps 27:13–14I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- 1 Sam 30:6David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
- Luke 12:30–32For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
- Ps 142:4–5Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
- Luke 12:11–12When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
- Mark 4:38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
- 1 Sam 1:10–18She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.
- John 10:13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.
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