Bible Verses AboutContentment
Bible verses about Contentment
True contentment isn't found in fleeting possessions or circumstances, but in a deep, abiding trust in God's provision. Exploring what the Bible says about contentment reveals a path to inner peace that transcends our worldly desires. Scripture teaches us to find joy and satisfaction in every situation, knowing that God is working all things for our good. By studying these verses, we can learn to shift our focus from what we lack to the abundance of blessings already present in our lives. Embrace the wisdom of scripture to cultivate a contented heart, one that rests in the unwavering love and faithfulness of our Creator.
Most Helpful Verses
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And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Scripture Passages
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.
And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
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.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
For David said, The Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord:
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.
For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Reflection
Contemplating Contentment
In conclusion, the Bible verses explored reveal that true contentment isn't found in accumulating possessions or achieving worldly success, but in cultivating a heart of gratitude and trust in God's provision. Whether facing abundance or scarcity, these scriptures consistently point to the sufficiency of God's grace and the peace that surpasses understanding when our focus shifts from external circumstances to an internal reliance on Him. By meditating on these passages and applying their principles to our daily lives, we can actively combat the allure of materialism and dissatisfaction. Let us strive to embrace a spirit of contentment, recognizing that our ultimate fulfillment lies not in what we have, but in who we have – a loving and faithful God who promises to meet all our needs according to His riches in glory.
May these verses about contentment bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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