28 Bible Verses about Being Content
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Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am.
I know how to live humbly; I also know how to live in prosperity. I have been initiated into the secret for all sorts and conditions of life, for plenty and for hunger, for prosperity and for privations.
It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!
for we bring nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.
Everyone must remain in the condition of life where he was called.
Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.
Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.
For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.
Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!
So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words ??and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.
You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.
Soldiers also asked him, "And what are we to do?" He said to them, "Never extort money, never lay a false charge, but be content with your pay."
For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.
Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.
and if any wife has a husband who is not a believer, and if he consents to live with her, she must not put her husband away.
But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ
Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you,
to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.
Copy me, brothers, one and all of you, and notice those who live by the example you get from me.
But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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- Finances
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- Loving Money
- Memorizing Scripture
- Money
- Plenty Through God
- Profits
- Resentment, Against People
- Respect
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- Shortage Other Than Food
- Shortages
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- True Gain
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