Bible verses about "contentment" | Etheridge

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust corrupt, and where thieves do not dig through and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are. ²² The lamp of the body is the eye: if thine eye therefore be perfect, thy whole body will be illuminated; ²³ but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, what will thy darkness be? ²⁴ No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honour, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.

¹⁵ And he said to his disciples, Beware of all avarice: for life is not in the abundance of riches.

¹⁷ But (according as) the Lord hath distributed to every one, as Aloha hath called, so let him walk; and thus in all the churches, so I direct.

¹⁹ And my God shall supply all your necessity, according to his riches in the glory of Jeshu Meshiha.

¹⁰ For this cause I am willing in infirmities, in reviling, in affliction, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of the Meshiha; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

⁶ For our gain is great which is the fear of Aloha, with the use of our sufficiency.[Bachshachtho demesthan.]

³³ But seek first the kingdom of Aloha and his righteousness, and all these shall be added unto you.

¹¹ But I have not spoken because I have had need; for I have learned to make sufficient to me that which I have had.

⁶ For our gain is great which is the fear of Aloha, with the use of our sufficiency.[Bachshachtho demesthan.] ⁷ For nothing brought we into the world, and we know that nothing we are able to take from it. ⁸ Therefore sufficient to us are food and raiment. [Or, covering.] ⁹ But they who will be rich fall into temptations and snares, and many lusts which befool and injure, and which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the root of all evil is the love of money; and there are who have coveted it, and from the faith have erred, and have made themselves enter into many sorrows. ¹¹ But thou, O man of God, from these things flee, and follow after righteousness, and after equity, and after faith, and after charity, and after patience, and after meekness.

⁶ For our gain is great which is the fear of Aloha, with the use of our sufficiency.[Bachshachtho demesthan.] ⁷ For nothing brought we into the world, and we know that nothing we are able to take from it. ⁸ Therefore sufficient to us are food and raiment. [Or, covering.]

⁵ Let not your mind love money; but let whatever ye have suffice you: for the Lord hath said, I will not abandon thee, nor withhold from thee support.[Withhold from thee hands; that is, help, strength, &c.]

¹¹ But I have not spoken because I have had need; for I have learned to make sufficient to me that which I have had. ¹² I know (how) to be abased, I know also how to abound in all; and in every thing I am trained with sufficiency and with hunger, with abundance and with destitution [to be satisfied]: