Philippians 4:17
Not that I want the gift, but I want the fruit that is being added to your account.
Family 35 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
16Yes, even in Thessalonica, both once and again, you sent aid for my need.
Cross References
Matthew 10:40“The one receiving you receives me, and the one receiving me receives the One who sent me.
Luke 14:12Then He said directly to His host: “Whenever you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.
John 15:16It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.
Romans 15:28So when I have finished this and have sealed to them this ‘fruit’, I will go by way of you to Spain.
2 Corinthians 9:5So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go to you in advance and finish preparing the ‘blessing’ you had promised, that it be ready, representing generosity and not stinginess.
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 →