Philippians 4:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that accumulates to your account.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I’m not hoping for a gift, but I am hoping for a profit that accumulates in your account.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.

Philippians 4:17 Cross References

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I have become like one who, after the summer fruit has been gathered, after the vintage has been gleaned, finds no cluster to eat; there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

John 15:8

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

Romans 15:28

So, when I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will set out by way of you to Spain,

2 Corinthians 11:16

I repeat, let no one think that I am a fool, but if you do, then accept me as a fool, so that I, too, may boast a little.

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for this bountiful gift that you have promised, so that it may be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an extortion.

Philippians 1:11

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

Titus 1:7

For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,

Titus 3:14

And let people learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet urgent needs, so that they may not be unproductive.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 Peter 5:2

to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it, not for sordid gain but eagerly.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.