Bible Verses About Contentment

And the king said vnto Barzillai, Come ouer with me, and I will feede thee with me in Ierusalem.

And Barzillai said vnto the king, Howe long haue I to liue, that I should goe vp with the king to Ierusalem?

I am this day fourescore yeere olde: and can I discerne betweene good or euill? Hath thy seruant any taste in that I eat or in that I drinke? Can I heare any more the voyce of singing men and women? wherefore then should thy seruant be anymore a burthen vnto my lord the king?

Thy seruant will goe a litle way ouer Iorden with the King, and why wil the king recompence it me with such a rewarde?

I pray thee, let thy seruant turne backe againe, that I may die in mine owne citie, and be buryed in the graue of my father and of my mother: but beholde thy seruant Chimham, let him goe with my lorde the king, and doe to him what shall please thee.

I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

And also that euery man eateth and drinketh, and seeth the commoditie of all his labour. this is the gift of God.

All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

Goe, eate thy bread with ioy, and drinke thy wine with a cheerefull heart: for God nowe accepteth thy workes.

At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oyle be lacking vpon thine head.

Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.

Let euery man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.

Art thou called being a seruant? care not for it: but if yet thou maiest be free, vse it rather.

I speake not because of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content.

And I can be abased, and I can abounde: euery where in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungrie, and to abounde, and to haue want.

But godlinesse is great gaine, if a man be content with that he hath.

For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out.

Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content.