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Philippians 4:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.

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He pitying the poor lends to Jehovah, and he will recompense to him his act.

Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.

Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

Therefore having completed this, and sealed to them this fruit, I will come away by you to Spain.

Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.




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