KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 6:31–32
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Matthew 6:31
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eate? or, what shall we drinke? or wherewithall shall wee be clothed?
Matthew 6:32
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
32(For after all these things doe the Gentiles seeke:) for your heauenly father knoweth that ye haue neede of all these things.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 6:31
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Anxiety or excessive care; 'take thought' means to be anxious.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
Wherewithal
With what, with which, or by what means the stated action may be done.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To put garments upon or provide clothing; figuratively, to cover, invest, or surround with the condition or quality named.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 6:32
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons of the nations; in the New Testament, persons distinguished from Jews.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to, coming from, or resembling heaven.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Want: occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 31
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Open the full verse study7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
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Open the full verse study29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
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Open the full verse study4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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Open the full verse study22Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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Open the full verse study33And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
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Open the full verse study3Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
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Open the full verse study9And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.
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Open the full verse study18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
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Open the full verse study20And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
From verse 32
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Open the full verse study8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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Open the full verse study30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
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Open the full verse study17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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Open the full verse study11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
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Open the full verse study14From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
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Open the full verse study25But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
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Open the full verse study5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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Open the full verse study13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
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Open the full verse study46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
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