Thematic Bible: Overmuch Care


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And they all {alike} began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field, and {I must} go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.' And another said, 'I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you, consider me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and for this [reason] I am not able to come.'


And he said to his disciples, "For this [reason] I tell you, do not be anxious for [your] life, what you will eat, or for [your] body, what you will wear. Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsWorrySeeking FoodProvision For The BodyLiving SoulsChrist Speaking To DisciplesDo Not Be AnxiousInstruction About ClothesNot WorryingWorryingTaking Care Of Your Bodyanxious



But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. Verse ConceptsCare, WorldlyCelibacyLibertyPriorityUnrestDo Not Be AnxiousUnmarriedNot WorryingAnxiety And FearWorryingFocusBeing Singledistractionsfreeworriesanxious

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in]. Verse ConceptsBusynessFutilityWealthHuman IgnoranceRest, PhysicalRiches, Ungodly Use OfTreasureCare, WorldlyCovetousness, Nature ofNot Knowing The FutureDrawbacks To Richesgathering

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business! Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends

And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror, Verse ConceptsBreaking SticksDrinking WaterFamine ComingFear Will ComePeople AppalledFamine Will ComeAnxiety And FearDespairweight

And you must say to the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the inhabitants of Jerusalem about the land of Israel: "They will eat their food with anxiety and their water they will drink with horror, because their land will be desolate from its fullness because of all the violence of {those who are dwelling in it}. Verse ConceptsWorryViolence In The EarthEating And DrinkingFear Will ComeDespair


And which of you [by] being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span? If then you are not even able [to do] a very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest?

And [as] they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go!" Verse ConceptsExaggerationsRoadsWhereverfollowing

Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh, and Yahweh is his trust. For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to [the] stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves will be luxuriant, and in [the] year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.



But the Lord answered [and] said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many [things]! Verse ConceptsHealthDuplicating WordsWorry And StressWorryingAnxiety And StressNervousnessdistractionsworriesanxious