Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek a gift; but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent once and again to aid me in my need.
Cross References
Matthew 10:40He that receives you, receives me: and he that receives me, receives him that sent me.
Luke 14:12Then he said also to him that had invited him: When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.
John 15:16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.
Romans 15:28When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.
2 Corinthians 9:5Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 4:11-20
Kindness Acknowledged; Christian Contentment. ( a. d. 62.) 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all… Read the whole commentary →