Bible Verses about “being content”
The Bible contains 32 verses about being content across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“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."”
“"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'”
“For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.”
“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”
“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”
“I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.”
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.”
“You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. A Prayer by David.”
“But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.”
“Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.”
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.”
“The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.”
“"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?”
“He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.”
“Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?”
“Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.”
“He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.”
“I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”
“For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.”
“Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.”
“But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."”
“Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.”
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.”