WHAT IT MEANS
Give Him Your Anxiety
Believers can place their anxieties on God because His care is personal and real.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
CONTEXT
What is happening here?
Peter is teaching humility under God’s mighty hand while believers face suffering and spiritual opposition.
APPLY IT
For today
Turn a vague cloud of anxiety into specific prayers, naming each burden you are handing to God.
Read it in 5 translations
KJV King James Version
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
WEB World English Bible
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
ASV American Standard Version
casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.
Surrounding context — 1 Peter 5
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
πᾶσανG3956 · pasallτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoμέριμνανG3308 · merimnaconcernὑμῶνG4771 · suyouἐπιρίψαντεςG1977 · epirriptōto throw onἐπ᾽G1909 · epiupon/to/againstαὐτόν,G846 · autosit/s/heὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatαὐτῷG846 · autosit/s/heμέλειG3199 · melōto concernπερὶG4012 · periaboutὑμῶν.¶G4771 · suyou
Cross-references
Psalm 55:22Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.Philippians 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.Psalm 37:5Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.Psalm 56:3-4What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.Matthew 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?Matthew 6:33-34But 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 forsake thee.Psalm 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.Psalm 27:13-14[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.1 Samuel 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.Psalm 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 Samuel 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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