28 Bible Verses about Being Content

I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part)

I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want.

Not that I crave for gifts from you, but I do want to see abundant fruit bring you honour.

and if we have food and clothing, with these we will be satisfied.

for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it;

But I rejoice with a deep and holy joy that now at length you have revived your thoughtfulness for my welfare. Indeed you have always been thoughtful for me, although opportunity failed you.

And godliness *is* gain, when associated with contentment;

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

Your lives should be untainted by love for money. Be content with what you have; for God Himself has said, "I will never, never let go your hand: I will never never forsake you."

I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.

But whatever be the point that we have already reached, let us persevere in the same course.

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

For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.

Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

"Do not exact more than the legal amount," he replied.

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

For this reason, if I come, I shall not forget his conduct, nor his idle and mischievous talk against us. And he does not stop there: he not only will not receive the brethren, but those who desire to do this he hinders, and excludes them from the Church.

Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.

The soldiers also once and again inquired of him, "And we, what are we to do?" His answer was, "Neither intimidate any one nor lay false charges; and be content with your pay."

For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows.

Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison with them; and remember those suffering ill-treatment, for you yourselves also are still in the body.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

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

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.

Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you.

We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,