Contentment
32 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Agur
- Barzillai
- Barzillai, in Refusing to Go with David to Jerusalem
- David
- Esau, in Refusing Jacob's Present
- General Scriptures Concerning
- God's Promises should Lead To
- Paul
- Saints should Exhibit in Their Respective Callings
- Saints should Exhibit with Appointed Wages
- Saints should Exhibit with Food and Raiment
- Saints should Exhibit with What Things They Have
- Shunammite
- The Shunammite, in Refusing to Make a Request of Elisha
- The Wicked Want
Agur
- Proverbs 30:8–9 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion. …
Barzillai
- 2 Samuel 19:33–37 The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.” …
Barzillai, in Refusing to Go with David to Jerusalem
- 2 Samuel 19:33–37 The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.” …
David
- Psalm 16:6 The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
Esau, in Refusing Jacob's Present
- Genesis 33:9 “I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
General Scriptures Concerning
- Psalm 16:6 The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
- Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
- Psalm 37:16 Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- Proverbs 14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
- Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
- Proverbs 15:13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
- Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
- Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.
- Proverbs 16:8 Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
- Proverbs 17:1 Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
- Proverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- Ecclesiastes 2:24 Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live, …
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7–9 All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied. …
- Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7–9 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works: …
- Luke 3:14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:17 Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
- 1 Corinthians 7:20–21 Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:24 Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.
- Galatians 5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
- Philippians 4:11–12 I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances. …
- 1 Timothy 6:6–8 Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain. …
- Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
God's Promises should Lead To
- Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Paul
- Philippians 4:11–12 I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances. …
Saints should Exhibit in Their Respective Callings
- 1 Corinthians 7:20 Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.
Saints should Exhibit with Appointed Wages
- Luke 3:14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Saints should Exhibit with Food and Raiment
- 1 Timothy 6:8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
Saints should Exhibit with What Things They Have
- Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Shunammite
- 2 Kings 4:13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
The Shunammite, in Refusing to Make a Request of Elisha
- 2 Kings 4:13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
The Wicked Want
- Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
Related topics
Contentment with Godliness is Great Gain
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.