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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 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.
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.
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.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.I can do all things through Messiah who strengthens me.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.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.
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.”
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Messiah’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
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?See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
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.”
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.
LORD, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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?
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation [yeshuah-ti] is from him.He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Better is little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble.Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
The fear of the LORD leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua toward you.
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to God, even the Father;
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Messiah Yeshua.
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in light,
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation [yeshu`ah].”
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Messiah may rest on me.
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
Do all things without complaining and arguing,that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
I thank him who enabled me, Messiah Yeshua our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says the LORD who has mercy on you.
seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.He alone is my rock and my salvation [yeshuah-ti], my fortress. I will not be shaken.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah,
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah;through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Messiah Yeshua.
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD, the LORD, is an everlasting Rock.
Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
Always rejoice.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua toward you.