28 Bible Verses about Being Content

Not that I refer to any personal want, for I have learned to be contented in whatever circumstances I am.

I know how to live in lowly circumstances and I know how to live in plenty. I have learned the secret, in all circumstances, of either getting a full meal or of going hungry, of living in plenty or being in want.

It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit.

If we have food and clothes we will be satisfied.

For we bring nothing into the world and surely we can take nothing out of it.

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it.

Now the fact is, religion with contentment is a means of great gain.

Everybody must remain in the station in which he was called.

You must have a turn of mind that is free from avarice; you must be content with what you have, for God Himself has said, "I will never fail you, I will never forsake you."

I can do anything through Him who gives me strength.

However, we must continue to live up to that degree of success that we have already reached.

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

So he said to them, "Stop collecting any more than is prescribed for you."

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.

So, if I come, I will remind you of what he is doing, how with malicious insinuations he is talking about me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, he interferes with those who want to do so, and tries to put them out of the church.

Were you called while a slave? Stop letting that annoy you. Yet, if you can win your freedom, take advantage of such an opportunity.

Then some soldiers too were asking him, "What ought we too to do?" So he said to them, "Never extort money from anyone, never make a false accusation, and always be satisfied with your wages."

For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.

Continue to remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and those who are being ill-treated, since you, too, are liable to similar physical punishment.

and a woman who has a husband that is not a believer, but he consents to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

And if you go into any town and they welcome you, continue to eat what is offered you,

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

For wherever your treasure is, there too your heart will be.

Follow my example, brothers, and keep your eyes on those who practice living by the pattern we have set you.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.