Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Translate, "Be anxious about nothing." Care and prayer are as mutually opposed as fire and water [BENGEL].
by prayer and supplication--Greek, "by the prayer and the supplication" appropriate to each case [ALFORD]. Prayer for blessings; and the general term. Supplication, to avert ills; a special term, suppliant entreaty (see on Ephesians 6:18).
thanksgiving--for every event, prosperity and affliction alike (1 Thessalonians 5:18; James 5:13). The Philippians might remember Paul's example at Philippi when in the innermost prison (Acts 16:25). Thanksgiving gives effect to prayer (2 Chronicles 20:21), and frees from anxious carefulness by making all God's dealings matter for praise, not merely for resignation, much less murmuring. "Peace" is the companion of "thanksgiving" (Philippians 4:7; Colossians 3:15).
let your requests be made known unto God--with generous, filial, unreserved confidence; not keeping aught back, as too great, or else too small, to bring before God, though you might feel so as to your fellow men. So Jacob, when fearing Esau (Genesis 32:9-12); Hezekiah fearing Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:14; Psalms 37:5).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 34:1-4
Matthew 6:25
Matthew 6:25
Philippians 4:5
Philippians 4:7
Colossians 1:3
Colossians 4:2
1 Thessalonians 5:16-17
1 Thessalonians 5:23
1 Timothy 5:5
1 Peter 5:7
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