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Hebrews 13:5
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.”
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Numbers 12:1
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married( for he had married an Ethiopian woman).
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be ill- treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.
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1 Timothy 6 6
Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.
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Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“ Because I drew him from the water.”
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Exodus 18:2-6
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom( for Moses had said,“ I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),and the other Eliezer( for Moses had said,“ The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.He said to Moses,“ I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”
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Genesis 31:38-40
“ I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.
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Philippians 4:11-12
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.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.
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Exodus 4:20-25
Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.The LORD said to Moses,“ When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.You must say to Pharaoh,‘ Thus says the LORD,“ Israel is my son, my firstborn,and I said to you,‘ Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said,“ Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
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James 1:10
But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.