But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

 The word here used for contentment is autarkeia (0841). This was one of the great watchwords of the Stoic philosophers. By it they meant a complete self-sufficiency. They meant a frame of mind which was completely independent of all outward things, and which carried the secret of happiness within itself. 