Bible verses about "content" | Bishops

⁸ And Moyses sayde: At euen shall the Lord geue you fleshe to eate, and in the mornyng bread inough, for the Lorde hath heard your murmuringes which ye murmure agaynst him: for what are we? Your murmurings are not against vs, but agaynst the Lorde

⁷ The more they increased in multitude, the more they sinned against me, [therfore] wyll I chaunge their honour into shame

²³ For the rewarde of sinne is death: but the gyft of God is eternall lyfe, thorowe Iesus Christe our Lorde

¹¹ I speake not because of necessitie. For I haue learned, in whatsoeuer estate I am, therwith to be content ¹² I knowe howe to be lowe, and I knowe howe to exceade. Euery where & in all thynges I am instructed, both to be ful, and to be hungry, both to haue plentie, and to suffer neede ¹³ I can do all thynges through Christe, which strengtheneth me

¹¹ Oh take my blessyng that is brought thee: for God hath had mercy on me, and I haue inough. And so he compelled him, and he toke it

²⁵ He that is of a proude stomacke stirreth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lorde shalbe well fed

⁶ Godlynesse is great lucre, if a man be content with that he hath ⁷ For we brought nothyng into the worlde, and it is certayne that we may carry nought away ⁸ But hauyng foode and rayment, we must therwith be content ⁹ For they that wyll be riche, fall into temptations and snares, and into many folishe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction

¹⁰ Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong

⁵ Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, beyng content with such thynges as ye haue. For he hath sayde: I wyll not fayle thee, neither forsake thee