Contentment in the Bible

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

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.

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.

And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.