Bible Verses about Contentment - Finding Peace in God's Promises
Are you struggling to find contentment in your life? Do you often feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled, no matter how much success or material possessions you accumulate? If so, you're not alone. Many people search for meaning and purpose in all the wrong places, only to come up empty-handed. But the bible offers us a different way of looking at contentment. Through its pages, we discover that true satisfaction and peace can only be found in God's promises. As we learn to trust in His unchanging love and faithfulness, we can experience a sense of contentment that transcends our circumstances. So let these bible verses guide you towards a deeper understanding of what it means to be truly content.
Contentment in the Bible
19 Bible Scriptures about Contentment
Genesis, Chapter: 33, verse: 9
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 16, verse: 18
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Read the chapterNumbers, Chapter: 11, verse: 6
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Read the chapter2 Kings, Chapter: 6, verse: 3
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 116, verse: 7
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Read the chapterProverbs, Chapter: 17, verse: 1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Read the chapterProverbs, Chapter: 30, verse: 8
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Read the chapterEcclesiastes, Chapter: 3, verse: 22
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Read the chapterEcclesiastes, Chapter: 4, verse: 6
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Read the chapterEcclesiastes, Chapter: 5, verse: 12
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 50, verse: 19
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
Read the chapterLuke, Chapter: 3, verse: 14
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Read the chapter1 Corinthians, Chapter: 7, verse: 30
And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
Read the chapterPhilippians, Chapter: 3, verse: 1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Read the chapterPhilippians, Chapter: 4, verse: 11
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Read the chapterPhilippians, Chapter: 4, verse: 12
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.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 13, verse: 5
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.
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