Philippians 4:17
not that I desyre gyftes: but I desyre aboudant frute on youre parte.
Tyndale 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
16For when I was in Tessalonica ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my nedes:
Cross References
Matthew 10:40He that receavith you receavith me: and he that receavith me receavith him that sent me.
Luke 14:12Then sayde he also to him that had desyred him to diner: When thou makest a diner or a supper: call not thy frendes nor thy brethren nether thy kinsmen nor yet ryche neghbours: lest they bidde the agayne and a recompence be made the.
John 15:16Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordeyned you that ye go and bringe forthe frute and that youre frute remayne that whatsoever ye shall axe of the father in my name he shulde geve it you.
Romans 15:28When I have performed this and have brought them this frute sealed. I will come backe agayne by you into Spayne.
2 Corinthians 9:5Wherfore I thought it necessary to exhorte the brethren to come before hode vnto you forto prepare youre good blessynge promysed afore that it myght be redy: so that it be a blessynge and not a defraudynge.
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 →