Bible Verses About Contentment
Scripture on the learned secret of enough — peace with what God has given.
Contentment is the rarest wealth: wanting what you already have. Paul called it a secret he had learned — which means it can be learned still, in exactly the circumstances you occupy today.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Contentment is learned — in whatsoever state.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
The arithmetic of real riches: godliness with contentment.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Be content with such things as ye have — because he never leaves.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
The shepherd's math: the LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
The wise middle prayer: neither poverty nor riches.
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Full or hungry, abounding or abased — strength for both from Christ.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
The craving that never lands: he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Take no anxious thought — your heavenly Father knows what you need.
Contentment grows where comparison dies and gratitude gets said aloud. Practise the sentence today: this, with God in it, is enough.
