“ Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? ”
Which of you, by taking thought - The third argument is taken from their extreme weakness and helplessness. With all your care you cannot increase your stature a single cubit. God has ordered you...
Which of you by (l) taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? (l) He speaks of care which is joined with thought of mind, and has for the most part distrust yoked with it.
True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. Matthew 6:19-21 . Treas...
of . from among. Greek. ek. add . prolong. cubit . span. Compare Luke 12:26 . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for. very small thing, as in Psalms 39:5 , where the Gre...
27. Which of you by anxious care, etc ? Here our Lord condemns another fault, which is almost always connected with immoderate anxiety about food: and that is, when a mortal man, claiming...
DISCOURSE: 1324 AGAINST CAREFULNESS Matthew 6:25-34 . 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...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? - The third reason against these carking cares is the unprofitabl...
Which of you, by taking thought, &c.— Who of you, by his solicitude, can prolong his life one hour? A version strictly literal would be, can add any length to his age; for the Greek word ηλ...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Which of you, by taking thought ('anxious solicitude') can add one cubit unto his stature, х heelikian ( G2244 )]? "Sta...
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to loo...
One cubit unto his stature. — The Greek for the last word admits either this meaning (as in Luke 19:3 , and perhaps Luke 2:52 ) or that of age (as in John 9:21 ; John 9:23 , and Hebrews 11:24...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
the Cure for Anxious Care Matthew 6:27-34 The Lord's tone is gentle and tender when He turns to address the poor. He says three times over, “Don't be anxious.” He never forgot that He sprang, a...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a stateme...
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Who can add to the beauties, as well as doctrines o...
Which of you by taking thought ,.... As Christ argued before, from the unnecessariness of anxious thoughts and cares, about the provisions of life; so here, from the unprofitableness of them; it bei...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Ver. 27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? ] And as little able are we (though we take never so...
Therefore I say, Take no thought , &c. Our Lord here proceeds to caution his disciples against worldly cares , these being as inconsistent with the true service of God as worldly desires. But...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to imp...
The Sermon on the Mount. 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor...
How vain a thing is it to distract yourselves with anxious thoughts about your body and your life! All your thinking will not add a cubit to your stature: as your being and existence derives from God...
a “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, b What you shall eat, or what you shall drink, b Nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. b Is not the life more than the food, and...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:25 . Therefore .—Denoting a connection between the service of mammon and “taking thought.” Take no thought .— Be not anxious (R.V.). Life.—The Greek word is the same a...
Matthew 6:25-34 In Matthew 6:25-26 we have an argument against giving place to the cares of this world, on the ground that they are unworthy of an immortal being like man; and also an illustrati...
Matthew 6:5 . And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. We...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righte...
EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , note. ( b ) Our Lord turns from cases which could b...
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? In whose case will the fact that he worries about the question continually be of any aid in increasing his height, or rather, in...
1 Corinthians 12:18 ; Ecclesiastes 3:14 ; Luke 12:25 ; Luke 12:26 ; Matthew 5:36 ; Psalms 39:6
And which of you — If you are ever so careful, can even add a moment to your own life thereby? This seems to be far the most easy and natural sense of the words.