42 Bible Verses about Being Content
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Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.
And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want.
Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out.
And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time.
But devotion with contentment is great gain.
The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.
I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.
But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same.
For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.
The fear of Jehovah is to life: and he being filled shall lodge satisfied; he shall not be reviewed for evil.
The just one ate to fill his soul: and the belly of the unjust shall want
And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time
I knew that no good is in them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.
Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it
Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church.
Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied; and thine emptiness in the midst of thee; and thou shalt remove and shalt not deliver; and what thou shalt save I will give to the sword.
Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.
A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.
And they making war asked him, saying, And what shall do? And he said to them, Shake none violently, neither make slanderous accusation; and be content with your pay.
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.
Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.
And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away.
For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.
And in whatever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat the things set before you.
As milk and fatness my soul shall be satisfied; and with rejoicing lips shall my mouth praise.
I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
And eating, ye ate and were satisfied, and ye praised the name of Jehovah your God who did wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed forever.
Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.
For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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