Bible Verses About Contentment: General references

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

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

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

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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

Let thy garments be always white; and let not thy head lack oil.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

But godliness with contentment is great gain:

for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;

but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.