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Hebrews 13:5

希伯来书 13:5

The Passage

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, 'I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.'

In the other language

你们存心不可贪爱钱财，要以自己所有的为足；因为主曾说：我总不撇下你，也不丢弃你。

Theme

Never forsake you

Bring a question to this passage

Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

Pressure at work can make security feel like something you must continually earn. This verse names the love of money and invites contentment, grounding that invitation in God's words: “I will in no way leave you.” It does not settle questions about fair pay, job changes, or unreasonable demands. It does offer a way to examine what you are asking work to provide. There is a difference between needing a livelihood and needing success to prove that you matter. You can acknowledge practical concerns without making them the measure of your life. When in your working day could you pause, acknowledging that this verse does not resolve workplace pressures, to rest in God's presence rather than measure your worth by your success?

Carry thisContentment leaves room for needs without making money everything.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Contentment may seem far from the work of loving someone, but this passage connects it with freedom from the love of money and the assurance of God's faithfulness. It does not directly explain how to improve a relationship; it offers a place to examine what you are asking possessions or another person to provide. You might notice comparisons, financial expectations, or the wish for constant reassurance shaping your responses. Contentment does not mean overlooking genuine needs or accepting mistreatment. It means making room to value what is present without demanding that it become everything. Which expectations of this relationship might you hold more gently, as this passage offers no direct advice about loving someone but invites contentment grounded in God's faithful presence?

Carry thisContentment leaves room to love without demanding everything.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

Money is named plainly here, along with the love of it and the invitation to contentment. The passage gives your question a concrete place to begin: the grip of wanting more. That is different from dismissing genuine needs or pretending financial strain is easy. You can attend responsibly to what you need while examining the hope that possessions could make you secure or worthy. The words about not being forsaken place contentment beside relationship with God, not beside a guarantee of material ease. As you consider the coming weeks, what desire for more has begun to ask more of you than you want to give?

Carry thisContentment is not the same as having no needs.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Contentment can feel difficult when a busy life keeps presenting you with more to earn, buy, or secure. This passage does not prescribe a rhythm of rest, but it names the love of money as something you need not organize your life around. It places contentment beside God's words, “I will in no way leave you.” You can linger with that promise without turning it into a prediction about your finances or your week. The invitation is to notice what you already have and what your striving is asking it to become. This passage does not directly describe a rhythm of stillness. How might you make room for contentment and rest in God's promised presence?

Carry thisContentment leaves room to notice what you already have.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

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Hebrews 13 — in context

1Let brotherly love continue.

2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

6So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

11For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

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