28 Bible Verses about Being Content

Not that I am speaking in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be content.

I both know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound: in everything, and in all things, I have learned both to be well fed, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to be in want.

Not that I am seeking for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that abounds to your account.

but, having food and raiment, with these we shall be content.

for nothing have we brought into the world, neither can we carry anything out;

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye revived your thought in my behalf, for whom ye were taking thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

But godliness with contentment is a great source of gain;

Let each one abide in that calling in which he was called.

Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, "I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you."

I am strong enough for all things in Him Who strengtheneth me.

nevertheless, whereunto we advanced, by the same rule let us walk.

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

For many are walking, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

thinking the same thing one toward another; minding not lofty things, but being carried along with the lowly. Be ye not wise in your own conceits;

And he said to them, "Exact no more than that which has been appointed you."

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain.

On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly.

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

And soldiers also were questioning him, saying, "And what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do violence to no one, neither accuse any one falsely, and be content with your wages."

For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

And, if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you;

I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Brethren, become imitators together of me, and mark those who so walk, as ye have us as an example.

For our citizenship is in Heaven, whence also we are waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;