1 Peter 5:7 (BSB)

Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

From 1 Peter 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Peter 5:7

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Peter 5:7: 7 Casting all our care He more fully sets forth here the providence of God. For whence are these proverbial sayings, “We shall have to howl among wolves,” and, “They are foolish who are like sheep, exposing themselves to wolves to be devoured,” except that we think that by our humility we set loose the reins to the audacity of the ungodly, so that they insult us more wantonly?
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary 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...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments 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 Psa 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...
  • Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Peter 5:7: Verse 7. Casting all your care upon him. Comp. , from whence this passage was probably taken. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved," Compare, for a similar sentiment, . The meaning is, that we are to commit our whole cause to him.