He who shows favour to the poor lends to יהוה, And He repays his deed.
Philippians 4:17 - The Scriptures 2009 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that is multiplying to your account. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Not that I seek or am eager for [your] gift, but I do seek and am eager for the fruit which increases to your credit [the harvest of blessing that is accumulating to your account]. American Standard Version (1901) Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account. Common English Bible I’m not hoping for a gift, but I am hoping for a profit that accumulates in your account. Catholic Public Domain Version It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account. |
He who shows favour to the poor lends to יהוה, And He repays his deed.
Woe to me! For I am as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleanings of the grape harvest. There is no cluster to eat. My being has desired the first-ripe fruit.
“Who among you who would shut the doors, so that you would not kindle fire on My slaughter-place for naught? I have no pleasure in you,” said יהוה of hosts, “Nor do I accept an offering from your hands.
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He might give you.
“In this My Father is esteemed, that you bear much fruit, and you shall be My taught ones.
Having completed this, then, and having put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I shall return through you to Spain.
Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little.
So I thought it necessary to appeal to the brothers to come to you in advance, and arrange your promised blessing beforehand – this to be ready as a blessing and not as greediness.
being filled with the fruit of righteousness, through יהושע Messiah, to the esteem and praise of Elohim.
Not that I speak concerning need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.
For we never came with a word of flattery, as you know, nor with a cloak for greed – Elohim is witness –
not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of silver,
For the love of silver is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some, by longing for it, have strayed from the belief, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,
And our brothers should also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, so that they shall not be without fruit.
For Elohim is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have attended to the set-apart ones, and still attend.
Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly,
having left the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Bil‛am the son of Be‛or, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.
Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bil‛am for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.