Bible Verses about Contentment

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• I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
  Philippians 4:12foodlifemoney
• For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
  1 Timothy 6:7-8foodmaterialismworld
• Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
  Hebrews 13:5trustmoneymaterialism
• But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  1 Timothy 6:6faithjoymaterialism
• Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
  Philippians 4:11trustdependence
• Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthpersecution
• He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
  Luke 12:15moneygreedmaterialism
• Better is a little with righteousness,
  than great revenues with injustice.
  Proverbs 16:8righteousnessmoneyhonesty
• Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  Matthew 6:25foodlifeworrying
• Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
  Romans 12:16humilitycommunitydependence
• Don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
  Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
• Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
  John 14:8Father
• Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
  Job 1:20-21worshipsufferingsadness