Philippians 4:17

It is not that I seek the gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.

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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 sent help for my needs more than once.

18I have received everything in full, and even more. I have been well-supplied now that I have received from Epaphroditus the things you sent. They are a sweet-smelling aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

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Cross References

Micah 7:1Woe is me! 1 I have become like the gathering of summer fruit, 1 and like the grapes that have been gleaned; 1 there is no grape cluster to eat, 1 no ripe early fig that my soul desires. 1

Matthew 10:40He who welcomes you welcomes me, and he who welcomes me also welcomes him who sent me.

Luke 14:12Jesus also said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, as they may also invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

John 15:16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. This is so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

Romans 15:28Therefore, when I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received what was collected, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.

2 Corinthians 9:5So I thought it was necessary to urge the brothers to come to you and to make arrangements in advance for the gift you have promised. This is so that it might be ready as a blessing, and not as something extorted.

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 →

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