Philippians 4:17
not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
In Context
16because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;
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 desired hath my soul.
Matthew 10:40'He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,
Luke 14:12And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;
John 15:16'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye 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 9:5Necessary, therefore, I thought [it] to exhort the brethren, 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 →