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Matthew 6:33 KJV
Matthew · chapter 6 · verse 33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.Matthew 6:33 · King James Version
What Matthew 6:33 means
This lands at the end of a paragraph about food and clothes, spoken to people who didn't know whether they'd have either. Seek first is about order, not about ignoring the bills. Jesus says the things you're chasing get added when the kingdom goes at the front of the line.
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Matthew 6:33 in context
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnessdikaiosynēin a broad sense state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition…G1343 →
- kingdombasileiaroyal power, kingship, dominion, rule, not to be confused with an actual kingdom but…G932 →
- firstprōtonfirst in time or place, in any succession of things or persons, first in rank, influence…G4412 →
- addedprostithēmito put to, to addG4369 →
- Godtheosa god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities, the Godhead, trinity, God the…G2316 →
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There is scarcely any one sin against which our Lord Jesus more largely and earnestly warns his disciples, or against which he arms them with more variety of arguments, than the sin of disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of life, which are a bad sign that both the treasure and the heart are on…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-34