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Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,“ Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (niv)
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Numbers 12:1
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. (niv)
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Hebrews 11:25
He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. (niv)
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1 Timothy 6 6
But godliness with contentment is great gain. (niv)
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Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“ I drew him out of the water.” (niv)
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Exodus 18:2-6
After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received herand her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses said,“ I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;and the other was named Eliezer, for he said,“ My father’s God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.Jethro had sent word to him,“ I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.” (niv)
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Genesis 31:38-40
“ I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. (niv)
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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 whatever the circumstances.I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. (niv)
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Exodus 4:20-25
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.The Lord said to Moses,“ When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.Then say to Pharaoh,‘ This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,and I told you,“ Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.“ Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. (niv)
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James 1:10
But the rich should take pride in their humiliation— since they will pass away like a wild flower. (niv)
