Hebrews 13:5

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.”

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Hebrews 13

3 songs meet this passage

  • “Too many times I've been left behind”

    Love Me or Leave Me · Three Days Grace

    strains against Hebrews 13:5

    The song's question hangs unanswered in human love; this passage points to a promise of a love that will never leave, something the lyric doesn't reach toward but could.

  • “You won't ever be alone”

    Photograph · Ed Sheeran

    strains against Hebrews 13:5

    The song offers presence through memory and photographs, a touching but limited promise, whereas Scripture grounds the promise of never being forsaken in God's own faithfulness.

  • “That kind of luxe just ain't for us”

    Royals · Lorde

    resonates with Hebrews 13:5

    The refusal to chase luxury gestures toward contentment with what one has, even if the song frames it more as identity than as trust in God.

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