'Content' in the Bible
[You behave as if] you are already filled [with spiritual wisdom and in need of nothing more]. Already you have become rich [in spiritual gifts]! You [in your conceit] have ascended your thrones and become kings without us; and how I wish [that it were true and] that you did reign as kings, so that we might reign with you.
But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, as the Law also says;
Related Words
- Contented (4 instances in 3 translations)
- Contenting (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Contention (40 instances in 12 translations)
- Contentions (22 instances in 10 translations)
- Contentious (13 instances in 11 translations)
- Contentiousness (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Contentment (5 instances in 12 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Capacity (17 instances)
- Cheerful (19 instances)
- Cheerfulness (3 instances)
- Comfort (145 instances)
- Complacency (3 instances)
- Conciliatory (1 instance)
- Content (49 instances)
- Contented (4 instances)
- Contentment (5 instances)
- Ease (66 instances)
- Meek (26 instances)
- Message (632 instances)
- Subject (135 instances)
- Substance (113 instances)