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Don`t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
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A Believer's Distinction
Commentators note the emphasis on "ye" (you), distinguishing believers from "the nations of the world." While the world anxiously pursues daily needs, Christians are called to a higher purpose. To live consumed by the same worries is to forget one's identity as a child of a loving, providing Father.
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Seek not ye (υμεις μη ζητειτε). Note emphatic position of "ye" (υμεις). Stop seeking (μη and present imperative active).[Reference…
19th Century
Anglican
Consider the lilies how they grow. See Notes on Matthew 6:28-33.
There are, however, some noticeable variations, such as:
Baptist
Why do you take thought for the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow: they do not toil, they do not spin; and yet I say to you, that Solomon…
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Jesus repeats the prohibition against worry (cf. v.22), though a different verb is used (lit., it means “be in suspense” or “be up in the air”).
16th Century
Protestant
And be not lifted on high.460 This clause corresponds to the last sentence in the passage taken from Matthew, Be not anxiou…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And seek not what you are to eat, or what you are to drink , &c.] That is, in an anxious and distressing manner, wit…
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Presbyterian
Christ strongly emphasized this caution not to give way to unsettling, perplexing worries (Matthew 6:25—34). The arguments used here ar…
