'Content' in the Bible
Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
But to the rest I -- not the Lord -- say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
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."
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
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- Capacity (17 instances)
- Cheerful (19 instances)
- Cheerfulness (3 instances)
- Comfort (145 instances)
- Complacency (3 instances)
- Conciliatory (1 instance)
- Content (49 instances)
- Contented (4 instances)
- Contentment (5 instances)
- Ease (66 instances)
- Meek (26 instances)
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