Godliness with Contentment
1 Timothy 6:8
In 9 translations
- BSB
- But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
- KJV
- And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
- WEB
- But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
- ASV
- but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
- LSV
- but having food and raiment—with these we will suffice ourselves;
- YLT
- but having food and raiment — with these we shall suffice ourselves;
- DBY
- But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.
- DRC
- But having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.
- GNV
- Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἔχοντες δὲ διατροφὰς καὶ σκεπάσματα, τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.
- RP2018
- ἔχοντες δὲ διατροφὰς καὶ σκεπάσματα τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.
- TR-Boyd
- ἔχοντες δὲ διατροφὰς καὶ σκεπάσματα τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.
- SCR1894
- εχοντες δε διατροφας και σκεπασματα τουτοις αρκεσθησομεθα
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Hebrews 13:5–6Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be…
- Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
- Matthew 6:25–33Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do…
- Proverbs 30:8–9Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion. Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become…
- Genesis 28:20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
- Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12–13I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live, and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
- Proverbs 27:23–27Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation. When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from…
- Deuteronomy 8:3–4He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth…
- Ecclesiastes 2:24–26Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment? To the man who is pleasing in His…
- Genesis 48:15Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).