Philippians 4:17
Not that I'm looking for a donation—I'm looking for your “account” to increase in “profit.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16Even when I was in Thessalonica you helped me out not once but twice.
Cross References
Micah 7:1I'm totally miserable! I've become like someone trying to glean summer fruit after the grape harvest is over. I can't find any grapes to eat, and there are no early figs that I love.
Matthew 10:40Those who welcome you welcome me, and those who welcome me welcome the one that sent me.
Luke 14:12Then he said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you back, and then you'd be repaid.
John 15:16You didn't choose me, I chose you. I have given you the responsibility to go and produce lasting fruit. So the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
Romans 15:28So once I've done this, and have safely delivered this contribution to them, I'll visit you on my way to Spain.
2 Corinthians 9:5That's why I decided I should ask these brothers to visit you in advance, and complete the arrangements to collect this offering, so that it would be ready as a gift, and not as something demanded.
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 →