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Hebrews 13:5 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 13 · verse 5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.Hebrews 13:5 · King James Version
What Hebrews 13:5 means
Conversation here means your manner of life, not your talk. The cure for covetousness isn't getting more, it's a promise: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Contentment rests on who stays rather than on what you hold. The writer is quoting God's own words back as the argument.
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Hebrews 13:5 in context
3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Commentary
Cross references
- Deuteronomy 31:8
- Joshua 1:5
- Deuteronomy 31:6
- 1 Samuel 12:22
- Isaiah 41:17
- Psalms 37:25
- Isaiah 41:10
- 1 Chronicles 28:20
Key words (Strong's)
- conversationtroposa manner, way, fashion, as, even as, like as, manner of life, character, deportmentG5158 →
- covetousnessaphilargyrosnot loving money, not avariciousG866 →
- contentarkeōto be possessed of unfailing strength, to be strong, to suffice, to be enough, to defend…G714 →
- forsakeegkataleipōabandon, desert, leave in straits, leave helpless, totally abandoned, utterly forsaken…G1459 →
- neverou mēnever, certainly not, not at all, by no meansG3364 →
- leaveaniēmito send back, relax, loosen, to give up, omit, calm, to leave, not to uphold, to let sinkG447 →
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The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-17