1 Timothy 6:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Giue vs this day our dayly bread.
  • Gen 28:20 : 20 Then Iaakob vowed a vowe, saying, If God will be with me, and will keepe me in this iourney which I go, & wil giue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on:
  • Gen 48:15 : 15 Also he blessed Ioseph and sayde, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Izhak did walke, the God, which hath fed me al my life long vnto this day, blesse thee.
  • Deut 2:7 : 7 For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the workes of thine hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wildernes, and the Lorde thy God hath bene with thee this fourtie yeere, and thou hast lacked nothing.
  • Deut 8:3-4 : 3 Therefore he humbled thee, and made thee hungry, and fed thee with MAN, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know it, that he might teache thee that man liueth not by bread onely, but by euery worde that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord, doth a man liue. 4 Thy raiment waxed not olde vpon thee, neither did thy foote swell those fourtie yeeres.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes. 24 For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation. 25 The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered. 26 The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of the fielde. 27 And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
  • Prov 30:8-9 : 8 Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me, 9 Least I be full, & denie thee, and say, Who is the Lorde? or least I be poore and steale, and take the Name of my God in vaine.
  • Eccl 2:24-26 : 24 There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, & delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God. 25 For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I? 26 Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
  • Eccl 3:12-13 : 12 I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life. 13 And also that euery man eateth and drinketh, and seeth the commoditie of all his labour. This is the gift of God.
  • Matt 6:25-33 : 25 Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment? 26 Behold the foules of the heauen: for they sowe not, neither reape, nor carie into the barnes: yet your heauenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they? 27 Which of you by taking care is able to adde one cubite vnto his stature? 28 And why care ye for raiment? Learne howe the lilies of the fielde doe growe: they are not wearied, neither spinne: 29 Yet I say vnto you, that euen Solomon in all his glorie was not arayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eate? or what shall we drinke? or where with shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things seeke the Gentiles) for your heauenly Father knoweth, that ye haue neede of all these things. 33 But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shall be ministred vnto you.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said, 6 I will not faile thee, neither forsake thee:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 6:6-7
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    6 But godlinesse is great gaine, if a man be content with that he hath.

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

  • Matt 6:30-34
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    30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?

    31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eate? or what shall we drinke? or where with shall we be clothed?

    32 (For after all these things seeke the Gentiles) for your heauenly Father knoweth, that ye haue neede of all these things.

    33 But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shall be ministred vnto you.

    34 Care not then for the morowe: for the morowe shall care for it selfe: the day hath ynough with his owne griefe.

  • Phil 4:11-12
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    11 I speake not because of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content.

    12 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.

  • Heb 13:5
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    5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,

  • 1 Tim 6:17-18
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    17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, & that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundatly, all things to enioy)

    18 That they doe good, and be riche in good woorkes, & readie to distribute, and comunicate,

  • Matt 6:25
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    25 Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment?

  • 1 Tim 6:9-11
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    9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

    10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.

    11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and followe after righteousnesse, godlines, faith, loue, patience, and meekenes.

  • Luke 12:22-23
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    22 And he spake vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate: neither for your body, what yee shall put on.

    23 The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.

  • 2 Cor 5:2-4
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    2 For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen.

    3 Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.

    4 For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life.

  • 2 Cor 6:10
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    10 As sorowing, and yet always reioycing: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things.

  • Prov 30:8
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    8 Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me,

  • 2 Cor 8:14-15
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    14 That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:

    15 As it is written, Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had not the lesse.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15 For if a brother or a sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode,

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8 But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

  • Acts 20:33
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    33 I haue coueted no mans siluer, nor gold, nor apparell.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12 Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,

  • 1 Cor 4:11
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    11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,

  • Mark 6:9
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    9 But that they should be shod with sandals, & that they should not put on two coates.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15 Wherefore he said vnto them, Take heede, and beware of couetousnesse: for though a man haue abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,

  • 2 Cor 9:8
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    8 And God is able to make all grace to abound towarde you, that yee alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all thinges, may abounde in euery good worke,

  • Matt 10:9-10
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    9 Possesse not golde, nor siluer, nor money in your girdels,

    10 Nor a scrippe for the iourney, neither two coates, neither shoes, nor a staffe: for the workeman is worthie of his meate.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • Phil 4:5-6
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    5 Let your patient minde be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.

    6 Be nothing carefull, but in all thinges let your requestes be shewed vnto God in praier, and supplication with giuing of thankes.

  • Deut 8:10
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    10 And when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, thou shalt blesse the Lord thy God for the good land, which he hath giuen thee.

  • Luke 12:29
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    29 Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, neither hag you in suspense.

  • Luke 12:31
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    31 But rather seeke ye after the kingdome of God, and all these things shalbe cast vpon you.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

  • Luke 9:3
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    3 And he sayd to them, Take nothing to your iourney, neither staues, nor scrip, neither bread, nor siluer, neither haue two coates apiece.

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31 And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: for the fashion of this worlde goeth away.

  • Matt 6:11
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    11 Giue vs this day our dayly bread.

  • Phil 4:18
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    18 Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8 Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

  • Matt 6:28
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    28 And why care ye for raiment? Learne howe the lilies of the fielde doe growe: they are not wearied, neither spinne: