Philippians 4:17
not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16because in Thessalonica also, both once and again you sent to my need;
Cross References
Micah 7:1My woe [is] to me, || For I have been as gatherings of summer-fruit, || As gleanings of harvest, || There is no cluster to eat, || The first-ripe fruit has my soul desired.
Matthew 10:40He who is receiving you receives Me, and he who is receiving Me receives Him who sent Me;
Luke 14:12And He also said to him who called Him, “When you may make an early meal or a dinner, do not be calling your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they may also call you again, and a repayment may come to you;
John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever you may ask of the Father in My Name, He may give you.
Romans 15:28This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;
2 Corinthians 9:5Therefore I thought [it] necessary to exhort the brothers, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, 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 →