Philippians 4:17
It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me.
Cross References
Micah 7:1Woe to me, for I have become just like one who gleans the clusters of the vintage in autumn. There is no cluster of grapes to consume; my soul desired figs out of season.
Matthew 10:40Whoever receives you, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me.
Luke 14:12Then he also said to the one who had invited him: “When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you.
John 15:16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.
Romans 15:28Therefore, when I have completed this task, and have consigned to them this fruit, I shall set out, by way of you, to Spain.
2 Corinthians 9:5Therefore, I considered it necessary to ask the brothers to go to you in advance and to prepare this blessing as promised, and in this way, you may be ready as a blessing, not as an excess.
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 →