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Philippians 4:17

Revised Version 1885

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

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He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD, And his good deed will he pay him again.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the firstripe fig.

Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness;

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye shewed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according unto God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.




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