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Hebrews 13:5
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,
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,
Verse Hebrews 13:5. _LET YOUR CONVERSATION_] That is, the whole tenor of your conduct, τροπος, the _manner of your life_, or rather the _disposition_ of your hearts in reference to all your secular tr...
LET YOUR CONVERSATION - Your “conduct” - for so the word “conversation” is used in the Scriptures; notes, Philippians 1:27. BE WITHOUT COVETOUSNESS - Ephesians 5:3 note;...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The practical walk (Hebrews 13:1)_ 2. The call to separation (Hebrews 13:7) 3. Conclusions (Hebrews 13:17)...
Emphasis is first laid on the duty of brotherly love_ i.e._ kindness towards fellow-Christians which was all-important in a struggling community like the early Church. Three aspects of this duty are p...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
Let brotherly love be always with you. Do not forget the duty of hospitality for, in remembering this duty, there are some who have entertained angels without knowing that they were doing so. Rememb...
CONVERSATION. bent, manner (of life). Greek. _tropos._ See Acts 1:11. WITHOUT, &C. Greek. _aphilarguros,_ literally without love of money. _ BE_ CONTEN t. Greek. _arkeo_. SUCH THINGS, &C. = the thi...
_your conversation_ The word here used is not the one generally rendered by "conversation" in the N.T. (_anastrophç_as in Hebrews 13:7, "general walk" Galatians 1:13; Ephesians 2:3, or ("citizenship...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS TO LOVE (1); HOSPITALITY (2); KINDNESS TO PRISONERS AND THE SUFFERING (3); PURITY OF LIFE (4); CONTENTMENT (5); TRUSTFULNESS (6); SUBMISSION TO PASTORAL AUTHORITY (7, 8); STEAD...
CH. 13. Concluding Exhortations to Love (1); Hospitality (2); Kindness to Prisoners and the Suffering (3); Purity of Life (4); Contentment (5); Trustfulness (6); Submission to Pastoral Authority (7, 8...
Ὁ ΤΡΌΠΟΣ. Lit., “_Let your turn of mind be unavaricious_.” In the A.V. it is “Let your _conversation_ be without covetousness”; but the word here used is not the one generally rendered by “conversatio...
_REMEMBER THESE THINGS -- HEBREWS 13:1-6:_ It is wonderful that brotherly love existed among these brethren. The writer admonished them to allow this love to continue. In a very forceful statement Pet...
ΆΦΙΛΆΡΓΥΡΟΣ (G9211) без любви к деньгам (_см._ 1 Timothy 6:10). ΤΡΌΠΟΣ (G5158) манера, образ жизни, настрой. "Да будете вы свободны от любви к деньгам, довольны тем, что имеете" (EGT). ΆΡΚΟΎΜΕΝΟΙPRA...
DISCOURSE: 2343 GODS PROMISED PRESENCE AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO DUTY Hebrews 13:5. _Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will neve...
BE CONTENT WITH SUCH THINGS AS YE HAVE:— The reason here given why there should be no discontent at the various cross accidents of life is, _for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee...
IV. _Final exhortation regarding duties pertaining to the Truth. Hebrews 13:1-25_. A. _Social duties. Hebrews 13:1-7_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:1-7...
COVETOUSNESS (Hebrews 13:5) In this chapter of Hebrews the apostle makes a practical application of the theme of the epistle. Having set forth at length the amazing grace of God toward His believing...
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. CONVERSATION, [ ho (G3588) tropos (G5158)] -...
22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
13:5 thee. (l-27) Joshua 1:5 . See also Deuteronomy 31:6 ....
CONVERSATION] i.e. manner of life. RV simply, 'be ye free from the love of money.' 7-16. Duty of steadfastly adhering to the doctrine of their departed teachers....
DUTIES OF THE PRIVATE LIFE, viz. chastity and contentment....
ADVICE, MEMORIES, PRAYERS, GREETINGS The Epistle concludes with various exhortations in regard to the social life (Hebrews 13:1), private life (Hebrews 13:4), the religious life (Hebrews 13:7), in whi...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE WAY OF LOVE AND DOING WHAT GOD WANTS 13:1-25 CHRISTIAN LOVE 13:1-6 V1 Go on loving each other as brothers. V2 Do not forget to re...
In these two verses (Hebrews 13:4) we have the same connection of thought as in Hebrews 12:16; Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 5:3. “Impurity and covetous
CHAPTER XVI. SUNDRY EXHORTATIONS. Hebrews 13:1 Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in...
Exhortations to social manifestations of their Christianity. Ἡ φιλαδελφία μενέτω. “Let love of the brethren continue”; it existed (Hebrews 6:10) and so, as Chrys. says, he does not write Γίνεσθε φιλάδ...
As in Ephesians 5:5 and elsewhere impurity and covetousness are combined, so here the precepts of Hebrews 13:4 lead on to a warning against love of money: ἀφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος, “let your turn of mind...
SANCTIFY DAILY LIFE Hebrews 13:1 We may not like _all_ the brethren, but there is something in each of them that Christ loves. Let us try to discover it, or love them for His sake. We can love peopl...
The last chapter contains a series of general exhortations. It is evident that the letter was sent to those whose faith was being challenged and weakened, and whose love, therefore, was cooling. These...
THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY DUTIES The author exhorted the Hebrew brethren to continue loving one another as members of the Christian family. He seems to assume that they are aware of the instruction of the...
(3) [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for (b) he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (3) Covetousness is condemned, ag...
_I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. It is an exhortation to covetous persons not to be too solicitous, but to trust in Providence. (Witham)_...
(1) Let brotherly love continue. (2) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (3) Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
_CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT_ ‘Be content with such things as ye have.’ Hebrews 13:5 Christian contentment—what is it? To be contented is to be satisfied; it is the amen of spirit with regard to what is—...
_THE NEVER-FAILING PRESENCE_ ‘I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.’ Hebrews 13:5 These words, or words very like them, occur in five different places in the Bible. They were spoken to Jacob ...
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...
In this next Chapter there is more than one truth important to notice. The exhortations are as simple as they are weighty, and require but few remarks. They rest in the sphere in which the whole of th...
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 s...
῾Αφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος, ἀρκούμενοι τοῖς παροῦσιν· αὐτὸς γὰρ εἴρηκεν, Οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ, οὐδ᾿ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπω, ὥστε θαῤῥοῦντας ἡμᾶς λέγειν, Κύριος ἐμοὶ βοηθὸς ¸ καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσομαι τὶ ποιήσει μοι ἄνθρωπος...
_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. Ver. 5. _Let your conversation_] Gr. προπ...
Heb. 13:2-8. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; (and) them which suffer adversity, as bei...
From particular duties the apostle proceeds to one which is more general, relating to our whole course of walking with God. _Let your conversation_ Greek, τροπος, _your behaviour_, or manner of living...
CONVERSATION; manner of life. COVETOUSNESS; inordinate regard for money or such things as money will procure. I WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE; the words occur in Deuteronomy 31:6, as a prom...
The first six verses of this chapter have a striking moral relationship to what has gone before. We have seen that though God's dispensational ways have undergone a mighty change in the advent of His...
1-6 The design of Christ in giving himself for us, is, that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. Here are earnes...
OLBGrk; Contentation with our state and condition is a fifth duty charged on the subjects of Christ's kingdom, and this is expressed privatively and positively, yet both propositions without a verb, w...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II For God's greatest gift is self-restraint. For He Himself has said, "I will neyer leave thee, nor forsake thee,"[256]...
Hebrews 13:5 conduct G5158 covetousness G866 content G714 (G5746) have G3918 (G5752) For G1063 He G846 said...
‘Let your way be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he himself has said, “In no way will I fail you, nor will I in any way forsake you.” ' Fourthly they were to bew...
Hebrews 13:4-5. The writer now speaks of two relations of life which are often placed side by side in Paul's Epistles marriage and the purity which belongs to it, and covetousness, or ‘the love of mon...
BE YE FREE FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY (αφιλαργυρος ο τροπος). No copula, but supply εστο: "Let your manner of life (τροπος, way, Matthew 23:37), be without love of money" (αφιλαργυρος, double compound),...
Hebrews 13:5 I. This word is sufficient, because God has spoken it. We say of some men, "Their word is their bond." Shall we say less of the living One, of whose eternity our life is but a spark? II...
Hebrews 13:1 I. Having warned the Hebrews against the dangers of selfishness, fleshly lusts, and covetousness, the Apostle proceeds to warn them against the dangers threatening their faith and loyalty...
This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are many t...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ It is supposed to be there already; let it continue, not only love of a common kind, such as we are to have to all men, but that special «brotherly love»...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to the Christian. Separation and worship. Apostolic benediction. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Our Lord Jesus purchased us with His blood that He might set us a...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The love as when you first believed, and when many of you sold your possessions to raise a fund for the widows, who were cut off from the alms of the synag...
FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY. The _love_ of money is a source of sin. See 1 Timothy 6:10; Ephesians 5:5 and notes. The quotation is from Deuteronomy 31:6; and other places. Read what Jesus said in...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 13:5 The citation from Psalms 118:6 shows that believers should trust in God for more than financial needs (especially in light of persecution,...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 13:1 Concluding Encouragements and Remarks. The author concludes with some specific points of application for the community (vv. Hebrews 13:1), w
VIRTUES AND GRACES BEFITTING THE CHRISTIAN PROFESSION _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:1. BROTHERLY LOVE.—φιλαδελφία, the mutual love of Christians as such. Hebrews 13:2. ANGELS UNAWARES.—...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS EXPOSITION As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They are urged t...
Chapter 13, closing out the book. Let brotherly love continue. Don't forget to entertain strangers: for some have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:1-2). Interesting. I believe it. I...
1 Chronicles 28:20; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Samuel 12:22;...
He — God. Hath said — To all believers, in saying it to Jacob, Joshua, and Solomon. Genesis 28:15; Joshua 1:5; 1 Chronicles 28:20....
Observe here,. dehortation, or negative precept, LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE WITHOUT COVETOUSNESS. By CONVERSATION, we are first to understand the disposition of the mind, then the actions of the life,...