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Hebrews 13:5
Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said,“ I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,”
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Numbers 12:1
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married( for he had married a Cushite woman);
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to endure ill treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin,
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1 Timothy 6 6
But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.
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Exodus 2:10
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said,“ Because I drew him out of the water.”
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Exodus 18:2-6
And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took in Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for Moses said,“ I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”And the other was named Eliezer, for he said,“ The God of my father was my help, and saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mountain of God.And he sent word to Moses:“ I, your father in law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.”
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Genesis 31:38-40
For these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.I did not even bring to you that which was torn by wild animals; I took the loss myself. You demanded it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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Philippians 4:11-12
Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
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Exodus 4:20-25
So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.And the Lord said to Moses,“ When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.Then you shall say to Pharaoh,‘ This is what the Lord says:“ Israel is My son, My firstborn.So I said to you,‘ Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I am going to kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”But it came about at the overnight encampment on the way, that the Lord met Moses, and sought to put him to death.So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet; and she said,“ You are indeed a groom of blood to me!”
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James 1:10
but the rich person is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.