28 Bible Verses about Being Content

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.

It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.

So if we have food and shelter, let us be content with that.

for we have brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out!

Moreover, I greatly rejoiced in the Lord that now once more your care for me blossomed afresh; though indeed you did take thought in this matter, but you lacked the opportunity of expression.

Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful;

Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue.

Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained.

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

And he said to them, "Exact no more than the sum allowed you."

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

The soldiers also repeatedly questioned him, saying, "And we, what shall we do?" "Do not intimidate any one," he replied, "nor lay false charges, and be content with your pay."

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

"And whatever town you come to, and they receive you, eat whatever they put before you.

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

"For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you.

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,