“But godliness with contentment is great gain.” (v. 6)

Godliness without contentment could never be a gain: You end up obeying, yet believing you deserve something for it. You keep the rules, but you think riches are rightly yours. You claim grace, yet you crave, as if grace weren’t sufficient.

Contentment without godliness could never be gain: Self-satisfaction (and self-justification) would keep you in sin. Being satisfied without being submitted devalues the One who calls you to repent, and not just revel.

It’s why so many of us across so many generations have bookmarked this verse. It is indivisible, and unfailingly true.

“Godliness with contentment is great gain.”

— Tyler