28 Bible Verses about Being Content

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.

I know how to face humble circumstances, and I know how to face prosperity. Into all and every human experience I have been initiated--into plenty and hunger, into prosperity and want.

It is not that I am anxious for your gifts, but I am anxious to see the abundant return that will be placed to your account. I have enough of everything, and to spare.

So, with food and shelter, we will be content.

For we brought nothing into the world, because we cannot even carry anything out of it.

It was a matter of great joy to me, as one in union with the Lord, that at length your interest in me had revived. The interest indeed you had, but not the opportunity.

And a great source of gain religion is, when it brings contentment with it!

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

Do not let your conduct be ruled by the love of money. Be content with what you have, for God himself has said-- 'I will never forsake you, nor will I ever abandon you.'

I can do everything in the strength of him who makes me strong!

Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.

For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.

For there are many--of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears--who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.

Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; be glad to associate with the lowly. Do not think too highly of yourselves.

"Do not collect more than you have authority to demand," John answered.

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

Therefore, when I come, I shall not forget his conduct in ridiculing us with his wicked tongue. Not content with that, he not only declines to recognize our Brothers himself, but actually prevents those who would, and expels them from the Church.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.

And when some soldiers on active service asked "And we--what are we to do?" he said: "Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay."

Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the Faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

And a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Whatever town you visit, if the people welcome you, eat what is set before you;

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Brothers, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you.

But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,