Bible Verses About Being Content
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being content, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,676 votes, led by Hebrews 13:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Content
Hebrews 13:5544 votes
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.
Philippians 4:11-13525 votes
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
1 Timothy 6:6-8322 votes
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Matthew 6:31-33191 votes
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
1 Timothy 6:6145 votes
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Psalms 16:8-11129 votes
I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Matthew 7:7106 votes
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Ecclesiastes 5:12103 votes
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.
Luke 12:2299 votes
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
James 4:1-1097 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Luke 6:46-4990 votes
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Proverbs 14:3089 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Philippians 4:1181 votes
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Deuteronomy 6:575 votes
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Jeremiah 1:572 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Matthew 6:3370 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke 12:1560 votes
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.
Psalms 23:1-656 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 Corinthians 12:1056 votes
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Romans 8:2855 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 Timothy 6:849 votes
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1 Corinthians 10:1348 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ecclesiastes 6:942 votes
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Isaiah 11:2-540 votes
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
Isaiah 40:29-3139 votes
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
What does the Bible say about being content?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:5 on the subject of being content. Across 4,676 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Philippians 4:11-13, 1 Timothy 6:6-8, Matthew 6:31-33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.