Bible Strands
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Peter, writing to scattered believers under persecution, places this command between a call to humility (5:6) and a warning about the devil (5:8). The moment is one of sustained pressure, not a single crisis.
The words — ἐπιρὶψαντες (epiripsantes) is an aorist participle of ἐπιρρίπνω, meaning to throw or hurl onto a surface; it carries the physicality of tossing a load off one's back, not the gentle act of setting something down. The aorist marks a single, decisive action rather than a repeated habit.
The thread — Psalms 55:22 uses the same cast-burden imagery ("Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you"). Philippians 4:6 and Psalms 37:5 approach the same transfer from a different angle—through prayer and through committed trust, respectively.
Why it lands — The verse asks the reader to stop carrying the weight and to do it once, decisively, rather than hovering over the decision. The ground given is not a platitude but a stated fact about God's disposition: He cares.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Cross-references
- Psalms 55:22 Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Psalms 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- Psalms 56:3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
- Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- Psalms 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Luke 12:22 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
- Psalms 27:13 Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.