Contentment
virtueFinding genuine satisfaction in God — regardless of what you have or don't have.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Contentment connects to different paths in Scripture:
Contentment arises from Money and Sabbath, and leads to Peace.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”Matthew 6:24 →
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”Colossians 3:15 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 19 verses
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
Read in context →“Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.”
Read in context →“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.”
Read in context →“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.”
Read in context →“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
Read in context →“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?”
Read in context →“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”
Read in context →“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Read in context →“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
Read in context →“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
Read in context →“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”
Read in context →“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
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