Philippians 4:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδὲν μεριμνᾶτε· ἀλλʼ ἐν παντὶ τῇ προσευχῇ καὶ τῇ δεήσει μετὰ εὐχαριστίας τὰ αἰτήματα ὑμῶν γνωριζέσθω πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.

Transliteration

Mēden merimnate; but in everything the proseuchē and the deēsei with eucharistias the aitēmata of you gnōrizesthō pros the Theon.

Grammar Details

• *Mēden*: adverb - nothing/not at all
• *merimnate*: present imperative, 2nd person plural - be anxious/worry
• *proseuchē*: dative, feminine, singular - prayer
• *deēsei*: dative, feminine, singular - petition/supplication
• *eucharistias*: genitive, feminine, singular - thanksgiving
• *aitēmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - requests/petitions
• *gnōrizesthō*: present imperative passive, 3rd person singular - let be made known
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Mēden*: nothing/not at all/in nothing
• *merimnate*: be anxious/worry/be concerned
• *proseuchē*: prayer/praying
• *deēsei*: petition/supplication/entreaty
• *eucharistias*: thanksgiving/gratitude
• *aitēmata*: requests/petitions/supplications
• *gnōrizesthō*: let be made known/presented/communicated
• *pros*: to/toward/before
• *Theon*: God/deity

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:25-33 : 25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? 26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? 27 And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? 28 And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread: 29 But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith? 31 Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? 32 Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
• 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.
• Ps 34:5-7 : 5 Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed. 6 This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.
• Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: 8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
• Matt 6:8 : 8 So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
• Luke 18:1 : 1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
• Eph 6:18 : 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
• Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
• Ps 62:8 : 8 Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
• Ps 55:22 : 22 Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
• 1 Thess 5:17-18 : 17 Keep on with your prayers. 18 In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
• Ps 55:17 : 17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
• 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
• Ps 51:15 : 15 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
• Prov 16:3 : 3 Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.
• Col 3:15 : 15 And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.
• Col 4:2 : 2 Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
• Luke 10:41 : 41 But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:
• Luke 12:22 : 22 And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.
• Luke 12:29 : 29 And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
• 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, 13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
• 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.
• Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
• 2 Cor 1:11 : 11 You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.
• Eph 5:20 : 20 Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
• Matt 10:19 : 19 But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;
• 1 Cor 7:32 : 32 But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:
• Matt 13:22 : 22 And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.
• Gen 32:7-9 : 7 Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups; 8 And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely. 9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you: 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies. 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child. 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
• 1 Cor 7:21 : 21 If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
• 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.
• 2 Chr 32:20 : 20 And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven.
• Dan 3:16 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.
• Song 2:14 : 14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.