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Proverbs 16:3 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 16 · verse 3
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.Proverbs 16:3 · King James Version
What Proverbs 16:3 means
Commit is the word for rolling something over onto somebody else. You hand off the weight. What's promised back isn't success but established thoughts, a settled mind. Solomon sets it beside verses about the LORD weighing the spirit, so this isn't a method for getting your plans approved.
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Proverbs 16:3 in context
1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
3Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
4The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
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Key words (Strong's)
- thoughtsmachăshâbâha contrivanceH4284 →
- Commitgâlalto rollH1556 →
- worksmaʻăsehan actionH4639 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears, - to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change, - to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary