Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that abounds to your account.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16that also in Thessalonica, ye sent once and again to my necessity.
Cross References
Matthew 10:40He that receives you receives me; and he that receives me receives him who sent me.
Luke 14:12And he said also to him who bade him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
John 15:16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Romans 15:28When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.
2 Corinthians 9:5I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty before promised, that this may be ready, in manner as a bounty and not as covetousness.
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 →