Philippians 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Philippians 4:17 —

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Cross-References

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Titus 3:14
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
2 Corinthians 9:9-13
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. …
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
John 15:8
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-19)

In these verses we have the thankful grateful acknowledgment which the apostle makes of the kindness of the Philippians in sending him a present for his support, now that he was a prisoner at Rome. And here, I. He takes occasion to acknowledge their former kindnesses to him, and to make mention of them, Phil. 4:15, 16. Paul had a grateful spirit; for, though what his friends did for him was nothin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. a gift--Greek, “the gift.” Translate, “It is not that I seek after the gift, but I do seek after the fruit that aboundeth to your account”; what I do seek is your spiritual good, in the abounding of fruits of your faith which shall be put down to your account, against the day of reward (He 6:10).