Bible verses about "contentment" | Coverdale

⁵ Put thy trust in ye LORDE with all thine herte, and leane not vnto thine owne vnderstondinge.

⁸ Remoue fro me vanite and lyes: geue me nether pouerte ner riches, only graunte me a necessary lyuynge. ⁹ Lest yf I be to full, I denye ye, & saye: what felowe is ye LORDE? And lest I beinge constrayned thorow pouerte, fall vnto stealinge, and forsweare the name of my God.

³ And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in honde: shalt prouyde for peace, eue the peace yt me hope for in the.

¹⁹ Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. ²⁰ But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale. ²¹ For where youre treasure is, there is youre herte also. ²² The eye is the light of the body. Yf thyne eye then be syngle, all thy body shalbe ful of light: ²³ But and yf thyne eye be wycked, all thy body shalbe full of darckenes: Wherfore yf the light that is in the, be darckenes, how greate then shall that darckenes be? ²⁴ No ma can serue two masters. For ether he shall hate the one and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other: Ye can not serue God and mammon.

³ Put thou thy trust in ye LORDE, & be doinge good: so shalt thou dwell in the londe, & verely it shal fede the. ⁴ Delyte thou in the LORDE, & he shal geue the thy hertes desyre. ⁵ Comitte thy waye vnto ye LORDE, set thy hope in him, and he shal brynge it to passe.

¹⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Take hede, and bewarre of couetousnesse, for no man lyueth therof, that he hath abundaunce of goodes.

¹⁹ My God fulfyll all yor nede, acordinge to his riches in glory i Christ Iesu.

¹⁰ Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.

⁶ Howbeit it is greate avautage, who so is godly, and holdeth him content with that he hath.

¹⁷ But euen as God hath distributed vnto euery one and as the LORDE hath called euery man, so let him walke: and so orden I in all congregacions.

³³ Seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heauen and the righteousnes therof, so shal all these thynges be ministred vnto you.

¹¹ I speake not this because of necessite: for I haue lerned in what soeuer estate I am, therwith to be contete

⁶ Howbeit it is greate avautage, who so is godly, and holdeth him content with that he hath. ⁷ For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde, therfore is it a playne case yt we can cary nothinge out. ⁸ Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content. ⁹ For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion. ¹⁰ For Couetousnes is the rote of all euell, which whyle some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled them selues with many sorowes. ¹¹ But thou man of God, flye soche thinges: folowe righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes:

⁶ Howbeit it is greate avautage, who so is godly, and holdeth him content with that he hath. ⁷ For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde, therfore is it a playne case yt we can cary nothinge out. ⁸ Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content.

⁵ Let youre conuersacion be without couetousnes, and be content with that ye haue allready, for he hath sayde: I wyl not fayle the nether forsake the,

¹¹ I speake not this because of necessite: for I haue lerned in what soeuer estate I am, therwith to be contete ¹² I can be lowe, and I ca be hye. Euery where and in all thinges I am mete, both to be full, and to be hongrie: to haue plentye, and to suffre nede.