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Lukács 12:30
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all: Matthew 5:47, Matthew 6:32, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:5, 1 Peter 4:2-4
your: Luke 12:32, Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:8, Matthew 6:32, Matthew 10:20, Matthew 18:14, John 20:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:15 - This is Deuteronomy 8:3 - doth Psalms 23:1 - I shall Psalms 34:9 - for Psalms 37:5 - Commit Psalms 111:5 - hath given Matthew 13:22 - the care Matthew 15:32 - and have Mark 4:19 - the cares Luke 12:24 - how John 18:11 - my Philippians 4:19 - supply 1 Thessalonians 3:11 - God 1 Peter 5:7 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after,.... That is, the Gentiles, as in Matthew 6:32 who are frequently, in the Jewish writings, called, in distinction from the Jews, אומות העולם, "the nations of the world" s. This is an argument used to dissuade from an immediate and anxious concern for food and raiment, because it is Heathenish, and therefore very unbecoming the disciples and followers of Christ: it need not be wondered at in those that know not God, and do not acknowledge his providence, and are strangers to his covenant and promises; but must be very unsuitable to the characters of such who know that godliness has the promise of this life, and of that which is to come:
and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things; and therefore it is needless to be so anxious about them: the Persic version reads, "all these things", and so some copies; that is, meat, drink, and clothing, all the necessaries of life;
Matthew 6:32- :.
s Vid. T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 28. 2. & 29.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:25-33.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 30. The nations of the world seek after — Or, earnestly seek, επιζητει from επι above, over, and ζητεω, I seek; to seek one thing after another, to be continually and eagerly coveting. This is the employment of the nations of this world, utterly regardless of God and eternity! It is the essence of heathenism to live only for this life; and it is the property of Christianity to lead men to live here in reference to another and better world. Reader! how art thou living?
Dr. Lightfoot observes on this place, that κοσμος, the world, and αιων, world or age, have a meaning in the sacred writings which they have not in profane authors. αιων has relation to the Jewish ages, and κοσμος to the ages that are not Jewish: hence, by συντελεια του αιωνος, Matthew 24:3, is meant the end of the Jewish age or world: and προ χρονων αιωνιων, Titus 1:2, means before the Jewish world began; and hence it is that the term world is very often, in the New Testament, to be understood only of the Gentiles.