- Bible
- 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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Let your conversation - Your “conduct” - for so the word “conversation” is used in the Scriptures; notes, Phi 1:27. Be without covetousness - Eph 5:3 note; Col 3:5 note. And be content with such…
Adam Clarke
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 transactions; for in this…
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…
Cambridge Bible
your conversation The word here used is not the one generally rendered by "conversation" in the N.T. (anastrophças in Heb 13:7, "general walk" Gal 1:13; Eph 2:3, or ("citizenship" politeuma, as in Php…
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