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Keywords: CONTENTMENT
Description: Genesis 33:9
NET Translation: But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”
DARBY Translation: And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine.
KJV Translation: And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyselfK216.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT
Description: 2 Samuel 19:33
NET Translation: So the king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will take care of you while you are with me in Jerusalem.”
DARBY Translation: And the king said to Barzillai, Pass thou over with me, and I will maintain thee with me in Jerusalem.
KJV Translation: And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
Keywords: CIVIL SERVICE,CONTENTMENT,INFLUENCE,INTERCESSION,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN
Description: 2 Kings 4:13
NET Translation: Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”
DARBY Translation: And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, thou hast been careD2232ful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she said, I dwell among mine own people.
KJV Translation: And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,CORD,JOY
Description: Psalms 16:6
NET Translation: It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.
DARBY Translation: The linesD3267 are fallenD3268 unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
KJV Translation: The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,DESIRE,ENVY,FAITH,HAPPINESS,PATIENCE,WAITING
Description: Psalms 37:7
NET Translation: Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes.
DARBY Translation: Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.
KJV Translation: Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,POOR,RICHES
Description: Psalms 37:16
NET Translation: The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,
DARBY Translation: The little that the righteous hath is better than the abundance of many wicked;
KJV Translation: A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONTENTMENT
Description: Proverbs 14:10
NET Translation: The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
DARBY Translation: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
KJV Translation: The heart knoweth his own bitternessK4208; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONTENTMENT,PEACE
Description: Proverbs 14:14
NET Translation: The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
DARBY Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
KJV Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONTENTMENT,COUNTENANCE,HEART
Description: Proverbs 15:13
NET Translation: A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.
DARBY Translation: A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
KJV Translation: A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONTENTMENT
Description: Proverbs 15:15
NET Translation: All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
DARBY Translation: All the days of the afflicted are evil; but a cheerful heart is a continual feast.
KJV Translation: All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,GOOD NEWS
Description: Proverbs 15:30
NET Translation: A bright look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the body.
DARBY Translation: That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.
KJV Translation: The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,POVERTY,RICHES
Description: Proverbs 16:8
NET Translation: Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
DARBY Translation: Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
KJV Translation: Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,MEEKNESS,PEACE,STRIFE
Description: Proverbs 17:1
NET Translation: Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
DARBY Translation: Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feastingD4317 [with] strife.
KJV Translation: Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrificesK4233[with] strife.
Verse Intro: Proverbs of Solomon 218-245
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONTENTMENT,DISEASE,MEDICINE
Description: Proverbs 17:22
NET Translation: A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
DARBY Translation: A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
KJV Translation: A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Keywords: BLESSING,CONTENTMENT,COVETOUSNESS,FOOD,POVERTY,RICHES,VANITY
Description: Proverbs 30:8
NET Translation: Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
DARBY Translation: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
KJV Translation: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for meK4373:
Keywords: BLESSING,CONTENTMENT,GOD,HAPPINESS,SENSUALITY
Description: Ecclesiastes 2:24
NET Translation: There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work. I also perceived that this ability to find enjoyment comes from God.
DARBY Translation: There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoyD4488 good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
KJV Translation: [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoyK4405good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
Verse Intro: The Ability to Enjoy the Fruits of Work is From God
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,HAPPINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 3:12
NET Translation: I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live,
DARBY Translation: I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
KJV Translation: I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Verse Intro: Enjoying the Benefits of Work a Gift from God
Keywords: BLESSING,CONTENTMENT,GIFTS FROM GOD,GOD,HAPPINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 3:13
NET Translation: and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.
DARBY Translation: yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoyD4493 good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.
KJV Translation: And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,PEACE,POOR,POVERTY
Description: Ecclesiastes 4:6
NET Translation: Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.
DARBY Translation: Better is a handful withD4502 quietness, than both hands full withD4503 labour and pursuit of the wind.
KJV Translation: Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,LABOR
Description: Ecclesiastes 5:12
NET Translation: The sleep of the laborer is pleasant—whether he eats little or much—but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
DARBY Translation: The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
KJV Translation: 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.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT
Description: Ecclesiastes 6:7
NET Translation: All man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach—yet his appetite is never satisfied!
DARBY Translation: All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetiteD4514 is not filled.
KJV Translation: All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetiteK4423is not filled.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,SENSUALITY,WORLDLINESS
Description: Ecclesiastes 8:15
NET Translation: So I recommend the enjoyment of life, for there is nothing better on earth for a person to do except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. So joy will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life that God gives him on earth.
DARBY Translation: And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.
KJV Translation: Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Verse Intro: Earthly Perspective - Enjoy Life Despite the Unexpected
Keywords: CONTENTMENT
Description: Ecclesiastes 9:7
NET Translation: Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.
DARBY Translation: Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merryD4533 heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
KJV Translation: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Verse Intro: Live Brief Life Well - Work Hard and Enjoy It
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,CONTENTMENT,FALSE TEACHERS,INJUSTICE,INTEGRITY,SOLDIERS,WAGES
Description: Luke 3:14
NET Translation: Then some soldiers also asked him, “And as for us—what should we do?” He told them, “Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay.”
DARBY Translation: And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.
KJV Translation: And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no manK6651, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your wagesK6652.
Keywords: CHURCH,CONTENTMENT
Description: 1 Corinthians 7:17
NET Translation: Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.
DARBY Translation: However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.
KJV Translation: But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
Verse Intro: Remaining in the Circumstances Where God has Called
Keywords: CHARACTER,CONTENTMENT,STABILITY
Description: 1 Corinthians 7:20
NET Translation: Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called.
DARBY Translation: Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.
KJV Translation: Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,SERVANT
Description: 1 Corinthians 7:21
NET Translation: Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.
KJV Translation: Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,MARRIAGE
Description: 1 Corinthians 7:24
NET Translation: In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.
DARBY Translation: Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.
KJV Translation: Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,ENVY,HUMILITY,LOVE,MEEKNESS
Description: Galatians 5:26
NET Translation: Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
DARBY Translation: Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
KJV Translation: Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,RESIGNATION,RIGHTEOUSNESS,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Philippians 4:11
NET Translation: I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.
DARBY Translation: Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me *I* have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.
KJV Translation: Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,HUMILITY,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Philippians 4:12
NET Translation: I have experienced times of need and times of abundance. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of CONTENTMENT, whether I go satisfied or hungry, have plenty or nothing.
DARBY Translation: I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.
KJV Translation: I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Keywords: CONTENTMENT,HOLINESS
Description: 1 Timothy 6:6
NET Translation: Now godliness combined with CONTENTMENT brings great profit.
DARBY Translation: But piety with CONTENTMENT *is* great gain.
KJV Translation: But godliness with CONTENTMENT is great gain.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CARE,COMMANDMENTS,CONTENTMENT,COVETOUSNESS,FAITH,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,RIGHTEOUS
Description: Hebrews 13:5
NET Translation: Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.”
DARBY Translation: [Let your] conversation [be] without love of money, satisfied with [your] present circumstances; for *he* has said, I will not leave theeD9164, neither will I forsake thee.
KJV Translation: [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.