1 Timothy 6:6

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Summary

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Contentment

General references

Jeremiah 35:9

Bible References

Contentment

But [if we] have food and clothing, with these [things] we will be content.

And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, "What should we also do?" And he said to them, "Extort from no one, and do not blackmail [anyone], and be content with your pay."

Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever [circumstances] I am.

General references

Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals [be] ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us."

And it happened [that] as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."

for it [is] not a trifling matter among you, but it [is] your life, and through this word {you will live long in the land} that you [are about] to cross the Jordan [to get] there to take possession of it."

[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.

and not to build houses [for] our living, and there is not vineyard, or field, or seed for us.