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112 Bible Verses about Contentment
I've found that true contentment is something you can only really grasp and hold onto when God is at the center of your life. It's about finding that deep sense of satisfaction and thankfulness, no matter what life throws your way.
The Bible teaches us that contentment is a virtue we should all strive for. It's what brings us peace and joy, regardless of our circumstances. It's not always easy, but it's definitely worth pursuing.
There's this passage in Philippians 4:11-13 where Paul talks about his own experience with contentment. He says, "I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength." That's powerful stuff, right?
Paul's words show us that contentment isn't about how much stuff we have or what we've accomplished. It's about our relationship with God and our trust in Him. It's about accepting where we are right now, knowing that in every season, in every situation, we can experience God's love and provision.
Just like Paul, we can learn to be content in both good times and bad. We can find that sweet spot of satisfaction knowing that through Christ, we have the strength to face anything.
I know the experience of being in need and of having more than enough; I have learned the secret to being content in any and every circumstance, whether full or hungry or whether having plenty or being poor.
We didn’t bring anything into the world and so we can’t take anything out of it:we’ll be happy with food and clothing.
I’m not saying this because I need anything, for I have learned how to be content in any circumstance.I know the experience of being in need and of having more than enough; I have learned the secret to being content in any and every circumstance, whether full or hungry or whether having plenty or being poor.I can endure all these things through the power of the one who gives me strength.
Actually, godliness is a great source of profit when it is combined with being happy with what you already have.We didn’t bring anything into the world and so we can’t take anything out of it:we’ll be happy with food and clothing.
Your way of life should be free from the love of money, and you should be content with what you have. After all, he has said, “I will never leave you or abandon you”.
Actually, godliness is a great source of profit when it is combined with being happy with what you already have.
I’m not saying this because I need anything, for I have learned how to be content in any circumstance.
Therefore, I’m all right with weaknesses, insults, disasters, harassments, and stressful situations for the sake of Christ, because when I’m weak, then I’m strong.
“Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes?Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?
Then Jesus said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourself against all kinds of greed. After all, one’s life isn’t determined by one’s possessions, even when someone is very wealthy.”
Consider everyone as equal, and don’t think that you’re better than anyone else. Instead, associate with people who have no status. Don’t think that you’re so smart.
LORD, my heart isn’t proud; my eyes aren’t conceited. I don’t get involved with things too great or wonderful for me.No. But I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child on its mother; I’m like the weaned child that is with me.
“Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes?
Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work.
Even strong young lions go without and get hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Only in God do I find rest; my salvation comes from him.Only God is my rock and my salvation— my stronghold!—I won’t be shaken anymore.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this.
Better a little with fear of the LORD than a great treasure with turmoil.Better a meal of greens with love than a plump calf with hate.
So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service.Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is—what is good and pleasing and mature.
God’s kingdom isn’t about eating food and drinking but about righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Enter his gates with thanks; enter his courtyards with praise! Thank him! Bless his name!Because the LORD is good, his loyal love lasts forever; his faithfulness lasts generation after generation.
“Happy are people who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because they will be fed until they are full.
We know that God works all things together for good for the ones who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
I know that there’s nothing better for them but to enjoy themselves and do what’s good while they live.
You teach me the way of life. In your presence is total celebration. Beautiful things are always in your right hand.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in faith so that you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He didn’t spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. Won’t he also freely give us all things with him?
The people who love your Instruction enjoy peace—and lots of it. There’s no stumbling for them!
Give thanks in every situation because this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Fraud and lies— keep far from me! Don’t give me either poverty or wealth; give me just the food I need.Or I’ll be full and deny you, and say, “Who is the LORD?” Or I’ll be poor and steal, and dishonor my God’s name.
God has the power to provide you with more than enough of every kind of grace. That way, you will have everything you need always and in everything to provide more than enough for every kind of good work.
always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
My God will meet your every need out of his riches in the glory that is found in Christ Jesus.
So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, you should do it all for God’s glory.
“Come to me, all you who are struggling hard and carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.Put on my yoke, and learn from me. I’m gentle and humble. And you will find rest for yourselves.My yoke is easy to bear, and my burden is light.”
and by giving thanks with joy to the Father. He made it so you could take part in the inheritance, in light granted to God’s holy people.
Be still before the LORD, and wait for him. Don’t get upset when someone gets ahead— someone who invents evil schemes.
The LORD is a sun and shield; God is favor and glory. The LORD gives—doesn’t withhold!—good things to those who walk with integrity.
God is indeed my salvation; I will trust and won’t be afraid. Yah, the LORD, is my strength and my shield; he has become my salvation.”
Why, I ask myself, are you so depressed? Why are you so upset inside? Hope in God! Because I will again give him thanks, my saving presence and my God.
Their lives end with destruction. Their god is their stomach, and they take pride in their disgrace because their thoughts focus on earthly things.
Who says that you are better than anyone else? What do you have that you didn’t receive? And if you received it, then why are you bragging as if you didn’t receive it?
Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger because you are with me. Your rod and your staff— they protect me.
Therefore, as a prisoner for the Lord, I encourage you to live as people worthy of the call you received from God.Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love,and make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together.
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength; they will fly up on wings like eagles; they will run and not be tired; they will walk and not be weary.
Let’s not get tired of doing good, because in time we’ll have a harvest if we don’t give up.
“That’s enough! Now know that I am God! I am exalted among all nations; I am exalted throughout the world!”
But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance,endurance produces character, and character produces hope.This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
He said to me, “My grace is enough for you, because power is made perfect in weakness.” So I’ll gladly spend my time bragging about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power can rest on me.
Instead, desire first and foremost God’s kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Soldiers asked, “What about us? What should we do?” He answered, “Don’t cheat or harass anyone, and be satisfied with your pay.”
Do everything without grumbling and arguingso that you may be blameless and pure, innocent children of God surrounded by people who are crooked and corrupt. Among these people you shine like stars in the world
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength because he considered me faithful. So he appointed me to ministry
Aim to live quietly, mind your own business, and earn your own living, just as I told you.
Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light.
All eyes look to you, hoping, and you give them their food right on time,opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing.
The mountains may shift, and the hills may be shaken, but my faithful love won’t shift from you, and my covenant of peace won’t be shaken, says the LORD, the one who pities you.
By his divine power the Lord has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own honor and glory.Through his honor and glory he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, that you may share the divine nature and escape from the world’s immorality that sinful craving produces.
The peace of Christ must control your hearts—a peace into which you were called in one body. And be thankful people.
because God satisfied the one who was parched with thirst, and he filled up the hungry with good things!
Also, whenever God gives people wealth and riches and enables them to enjoy it, to accept their place in the world and to find pleasure in their hard work—all this is God’s gift.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the self with its passions and its desires.
“Stop collecting treasures for your own benefit on earth, where moth and rust eat them and where thieves break in and steal them.Instead, collect treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moth and rust don’t eat them and where thieves don’t break in and steal them.Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
But thank God that although you used to be slaves of sin, you gave wholehearted obedience to the teaching that was handed down to you, which provides a pattern.Now that you have been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
Oh, I must find rest in God only, because my hope comes from him!Only God is my rock and my salvation— my stronghold!—I will not be shaken.
Bless the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing that comes from heaven.
Praise the LORD! Those who honor the LORD, who adore God’s commandments, are truly happy!
See what kind of love the Father has given to us in that we should be called God’s children, and that is what we are! Because the world didn’t recognize him, it doesn’t recognize us.
so that my whole being might sing praises to you and never stop. LORD, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
The pain of the wicked is severe, but faithful love surrounds the one who trusts the LORD.You who are righteous, rejoice in the LORD and be glad! All you whose hearts are right, sing out in joy!
if you open your heart to the hungry, and provide abundantly for those who are afflicted, your light will shine in the darkness, and your gloom will be like the noon.
Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory.
Although you’ve never seen him, you love him. Even though you don’t see him now, you trust him and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words.
So we aren’t depressed. But even if our bodies are breaking down on the outside, the person that we are on the inside is being renewed every day.
“Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door is opened.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Don’t be anxious about anything; rather, bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers and petitions, along with giving thanks.Then the peace of God that exceeds all understanding will keep your hearts and minds safe in Christ Jesus.
Those with sound thoughts you will keep in peace, in peace because they trust in you.Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD is a rock for all ages.
Rejoice always.Pray continually.Give thanks in every situation because this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.