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And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
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He shall remove its crop with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.
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And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
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And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
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You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
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“Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
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You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
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Jeremiah's Complaint
Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
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Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
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Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
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If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
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For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
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Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.
False Teachers and True Contentment
Teach and urge these things.
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But godliness with contentment is great gain,
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But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
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Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
