Bible verses about "contentment" | MNT

¹⁹ "Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ²¹ "For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted; ²³ "but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness! ²⁴ "No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

¹⁵ And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses."

¹⁷ Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one—and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him—in that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

¹⁹ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

⁶ Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful;

³³ "But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

¹¹ Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

⁶ Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful; ⁷ for we have brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out! ⁸ So if we have food and shelter, let us be content with that. ⁹ Those who desire to be rich fall into the snares of temptation and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows. ¹¹ But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

⁶ Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful; ⁷ for we have brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out! ⁸ So if we have food and shelter, let us be content with that.

⁵ Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

¹¹ Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens. ¹² I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.