6 Bible Verses about Discontent

And He being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, He sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster box of myrrh of spikenard estimated very valuable; and breaking the alabastar box, she poured it on His head. And there were certain ones indulging in indignation among themselves (and saying), For what was this loss of the myrrh? For this myrrh was able to be sold for more than three hundred denaria, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

And He said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness: because his life is not in that which aboundeth to any one, from those things belonging to him.

And during those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were being neglected in the daily ministration.

Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied against these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his myriads of saints, to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them for all the works of their ungodliness which they have impiously done, and for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him, being ungodly sinners. These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;