6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
The word guard here is from the greek work phulasso (foo.las.so). If we follow the command in verse 6 to be anxious for nothing & correctly petition God, His peace will guard our hearts and minds.
From what are our minds guarded?
1 to guard. 1a to watch, keep watch. 1b to guard or watch, have an
eye upon: lest he escape. 1c to guard a person (or thing) that he may remain safe. 1c1 lest he suffer violence, be despoiled, etc. to protect. 1c2 to protect one from a person or thing. 1c3 to keep from being snatched away, preserve safe and unimpaired. 1c4 to guard from being lost or perishing. 1c5 to guard one’s self from a thing. 1d to guard i.e. care for, take care not to violate. 1d1 to observe.
Strong, James: The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible : Showing Every Word of the Text of the Common English Version of the Canonical Books, and Every Occurrence of Each Word in Regular Order. electronic ed. Ontario : Woodside Bible Fellowship., 1996, S. G5442
guard. A military term meaning “to keep watch over.” God’s peace guards believers from anxiety, doubt, fear, and distress.
MacArthur, John Jr: The MacArthur Study Bible. electronic ed. Nashville : Word Pub., 1997, c1997, S. Php 4:7What a blessing to know that through the Lord Jesus Christ God is actively guarding our hearts and minds from the dangers to believers in this fallen world.
Check out Ephesians 6: 13-18!
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I am so glad to be able to share with you our Bible studies. It is a joy to learn more in order be able to "Guard" the Truth
from 1 Tim. 6:20 Paul, writing to his son in the faith,
"O Timothy, Guard the deposit entrusted to oyou. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called 'knowledge', for by professing it some have swerved from the faith."
Timothy is to guard the sound doctrine of the gospel as opposed to the list Paul gives in 1:10; and the false knowledge of the world. I laugh at Paul's use of "irreverent babble" - so much of we hear on a daily basis from "learned" people!!
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