Hebrews 13:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος· ἀρκούμενοι τοῖς παροῦσιν: αὐτὸς γὰρ εἴρηκεν, Οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ, οὐδʼ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλείπω.

Transliteration

Aphilargyros the tropos; arkoumenoi the parousin: autos gar eirēken, Ou mē you anō, oud' ou mē you egkataleipō.

Grammar Details

• *aphilargyros*: nominative, masculine, singular, adjective - free from love of money/not greedy
• *tropos*: nominative, masculine, singular - manner/way/character
• *arkoumenoi*: present, middle/passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - being satisfied/content with
• *parousin*: present, active, participle, dative, neuter, plural - things present/things at hand
• *autos*: intensive pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - he himself
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *eirēken*: perfect, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - has said
• *ou mē*: emphatic negative - by no means/never
• *anō*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person, singular - leave/forsake/give up
• *oud'*: compound negative - neither/nor
• *egkataleipō*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person, singular - abandon/desert/forsake

Word Meanings

• *aphilargyros*: free from love of money/not greedy/not covetous
• *tropos*: manner/way/character/conduct/lifestyle
• *arkoumenoi*: being satisfied/content with/sufficient
• *parousin*: things present/things at hand/what you have now
• *anō*: leave/forsake/give up/let loose
• *egkataleipō*: abandon/desert/forsake completely

Referenced Verses

• Josh 1:5 : 5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
• Deut 31:8 : 8 And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
• Deut 31:6 : 6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
• 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed; for Jehovah God, even my God, is with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah be finished.
• Gen 28:15 : 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
• Matt 6:34 : 34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
• Ps 37:25 : 25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
• Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Matt 6:25 : 25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
• Phil 4:11-12 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. 12 I know {G2532} how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
• Ps 37:28 : 28 For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
• Luke 16:13-14 : 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot {G3756} serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
• 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
• Luke 12:15-21 : 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's {G846} life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
• Eph 5:3 : 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain: 7 for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry {G3761} anything out; 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
• Exod 2:21 : 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
• Exod 20:17 : 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
• Josh 7:21 : 21 when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
• Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.
• Mark 7:22 : 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
• Luke 3:14 : 14 And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must we do? And he said unto them, Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse [any one] wrongfully; and be content with your wages.
• Luke 8:14 : 14 And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
• 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
• Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, {G4202} wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,