Hebrews 13:5 (BSB)

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

From Hebrews 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Hebrews 13:5

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Hebrews 13:5: 5. Let your conversation be without covetousness, etc. While he seeks to correct covetousness, he rightly and wisely bids us at the same time to be content with our present things; for it is the true contempt of money, or at least a true greatness of mind in the right and moderate use of it, when we are content with what the Lord has given...
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Hebrews 13:1-17: 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.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Hebrews 13:5: Let your conversation be without covetousness,.... Which is an immoderate desire, of riches, an over anxious care for worldly things, attended with dissatisfaction, and discontent with their present state: it discovers itself many ways; in preferring the world to religion; in laying up treasure for a man's own self, without being any ways useful to others; in withholding from himself the necessaries of life, and...
  • Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Hebrews 13:5: Verse 5. Let your conversation. Your conduct--for so the word conversation is used in the Scriptures. . Be without covetousness. ; . And be to content with such things as ye have. ; , seq. The particular reason here given for contentment is, that God has promised never to leave his people. Compare with this the beautiful argument of the Saviour in , seq. For he hath said.