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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 both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.
For we have brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry anything out.But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.
Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.
But piety with contentment is great gain.For we have brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry anything out.But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.
Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for he has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.
Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.
Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?
And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.
Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:
Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, and in things too wonderful for me.Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God
The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my salvation.Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.Once hath God spoken, twice have I heard this, that strength belongeth unto GodAnd unto thee, O Lord, belongeth loving-kindness; for thou renderest to every man according to his work.He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be greatly moved.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.
A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Better is little with the fear of Jehovah than great store and disquietude therewith.Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
The fear of Jehovah tendeth to life, and he that hath it shall rest satisfied without being visited with evil.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness endureth for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.
But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.
I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?
And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God
But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:
giving thanks at all times for all things to him who is God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.
Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;and said to him, Art thou the coming one? or are we to wait for another?for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,
Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.
For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Behold, ·God is my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.
Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)
For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,neither give room for the devil.Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.
but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.
Be still, and know that I am God I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:
And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.
Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him
and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving-kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah, that hath mercy on thee.
As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God
But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal;for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.
But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
Upon God alone, O my soul, rest peacefully; for my expectation is from him.He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be moved.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
That my glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be silent. Jehovah my God I will praise thee for ever.
Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.
How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;
Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which isby the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory,
Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.
Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
Be careful about nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.
Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed on thee, for he confideth in thee.Confide ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jah, Jehovah, is the rock of ages.
They that confide in Jehovah are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved; it abideth for ever.
rejoice always;pray unceasingly;in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;