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Passages on this topic · 43

• Genesis 33:9

  Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

• 2 Samuel 19:33

  The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

• 2 Samuel 19:34

  Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

• 2 Samuel 19:35

  I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

• 2 Samuel 19:36

  Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

• 2 Samuel 19:37

  Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

• 2 Kings 4:13

  He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

• Psalms 16:6

  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

• Psalms 37:7

  Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

• Psalms 37:16

  Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

• Proverbs 14:10

  The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

• Proverbs 14:14

  The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

• Proverbs 15:13

  A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

• Proverbs 15:15

  All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

• Proverbs 15:30

  The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

• Proverbs 16:8

  Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

• Proverbs 17:1

  Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

• Proverbs 17:22

  A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

• Proverbs 30:8

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

• Ecclesiastes 2:24

  There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

• Ecclesiastes 3:12

  I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

• Ecclesiastes 3:13

  Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 5:12

  The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

• Ecclesiastes 6:7

  All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

• Ecclesiastes 6:8

  For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

• Ecclesiastes 6:9

  Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 9:7

  Go your way — eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

• Ecclesiastes 9:8

  Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

• Ecclesiastes 9:9

  Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

• Luke 3:14

  Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

• 1 Corinthians 7:17

  Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

• 1 Corinthians 7:20

  Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

• 1 Corinthians 7:21

  Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

• 1 Corinthians 7:24

  Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

• Galatians 5:26

  Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

• Philippians 4:11

  Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

• Philippians 4:12

  I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

• 1 Timothy 6:6

  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

• 1 Timothy 6:7

  For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

• 1 Timothy 6:8

  But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

• Hebrews 13:5

  Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”