1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Casting	ἐπιρίψαντες epiripsantes	G1977	to throw upon (literally or figuratively) · verb — aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine
all	πᾶσαν pasan	G3956	all · adjective — accusative singular feminine
your	ὑμῶν hymōn	G5216	of (from or concerning) you
care	μέριμναν merimnan	G3308	solicitude · noun — accusative singular feminine
upon	ἐπ᾽ ep᾽	G1909	properly · preposition
him	αὐτόν, auton	G846	the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — accusative singular masculine
for	ὅτι hoti	G3754	demonstrative · conjunction
he	αὐτῷ autō	G846	the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — dative singular masculine
careth	μέλει melei	G3199	to be of interest to · verb — present active indicative, 3rd person singular
for	περὶ peri	G4012	properly · preposition
you	ὑμῶν hymōn	G5216	of (from or concerning) you

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Psalms 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalms 56:3-4 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Matthew 6:25-26 Therefore 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…
Matthew 6:33-34 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Hebrews 13:5-6 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor fo…
Psalms 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:5-7

Having settled and explained the duty of the pastors or spiritual guides of the church, the apostle comes now to instruct the flock, I. How to behave themselves to their ministers and to one another. He calls them the younger, as being generally younger than their grave pastors, and to put them in mind of their inferiority, the term younger being used by our Saviour to signify an inferior, Luk 22:26. He exhorts those that are younger and inferior to submit themselves to the elder, to give due respect and reverence to their persons, and to yield to their admonitions, reproof, and authority, enjoining and commanding what the word of God requires, Heb 13:17. As to one another, the rule is that…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 5:7

Casting--once for all: so the Greek aorist. care--"anxiety? The advantage flowing from humbling ourselves under God's hand (Pe1 5:6) is confident reliance on His goodness. Exemption from care goes along with humble submission to God. careth for you--literally "respecting you." Care is a burden which faith casts off the man on his God. Compare Psa 22:10; Psa 37:5; Psa 55:22, to which Peter alludes; Luk 12:22, Luk 12:37; Phi 4:6. careth--not so strong a Greek word as the previous Greek "anxiety."

Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care - Την μεριμναν· Your anxiety, your distracting care, on him, for he careth for you, ὁτι αυτω μελει περι ὑμων, for he meddles or concerns himself, with the things that interest you. Whatever things concern a follower of God, whether they be spiritual or temporal, or whether in themselves great or small, God concerns himself with them; what affects them affects him; in all their afflictions he is afflicted. He who knows that God cares for him, need have no anxious cares about himself. This is a plain reference to Psa 55:22 : Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee. He will bear both thee and thy burden.

John Gill on 1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him,.... "Upon God": as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read. The words are taken out of, or at least refer to Psalm 55:22, where, instead of "cast thy burden upon the Lord", the Septuagint have it, "cast thy care upon the Lord"; the care of the body, and of all the affairs of life, concerning which saints should not be anxiously thoughtful, but depend upon the providence of God, though in the diligent use of means, which is not forbidden, nor discouraged by this, or any such like exhortation; as also the care of the soul, and the spiritual and eternal welfare of it, which should be committed into the hands of Christ, on whom help is laid, and who is become the au…

The Church Fathers

Peter tells us that we have a guide and leader and that if we act according to his instructions, we shall keep ourselves pure and spotless.
— Andreas of Caesarea, CATENA

For, like elderly men who have no hope of renewing their strength, and expect nothing but their last sleep, so you, weakened by worldly occupations, have given yourselves up to sloth, and have not cast your cares upon the Lord. Your spirit therefore was broken, and ye grew old in your sorrows.
— Shepherd of Hermas, Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3

Then, removing the fear that would arise from humiliation (for perhaps he saw some fearing that by humbling themselves in this present life, they would suffer some evil), he said: "Do not be afraid, casting all your anxiety on the Lord, when you have entrusted yourself to him who will take careful and diligent care of you." "because he cares for you," or concern is placed upon him regarding all these things.
— Oecumenius, Commentary on 1 Peter

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Care · 6:26-34; — 6:26-34;
Care, Overmuch · Should be cast on God — Should be cast on God
Trouble · BORROWING — BORROWING

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Peter 5:7

Word by word — the Greek

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:5-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 5:7

Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 5:7

John Gill on 1 Peter 5:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

1 Peter 5:7

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:5-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 5:7

Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 5:7

John Gill on 1 Peter 5:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on 1 Peter 5:5-7

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Peter 5:5