Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Holman Bible
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit
International Standard Version
It is not that I am looking for a gift. No, I want to see that you receive the fruit that increases to your benefit.
A Conservative Version
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.
American Standard Version
Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.
Amplified
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I do seek the profit which increases to your [heavenly] account [the blessing which is accumulating for you].
An Understandable Version
[Now] it is not that I am looking for a gift, but I am looking for the benefit that [such a gift] will add to your [spiritual] account [with God].
Anderson New Testament
Not that I seek a gift; but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Bible in Basic English
Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.
Common New Testament
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.
Daniel Mace New Testament
not that I desire a present; but what I desire is, that the fruits of your liberality may greatly redound to your own account.
Darby Translation
Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your account.
Godbey New Testament
Not that I seek a gift; but I seek fruit abounding to your credit.
Goodspeed New Testament
Not that I want your gifts, but I want you to have the profits that will accumulate to your credit.
John Wesley New Testament
Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Julia Smith Translation
Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.
King James 2000
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account.
Modern King James verseion
I do not say this because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
not that I desire gifts: but I desire abundant fruit on your part.
Moffatt New Testament
It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!
Montgomery New Testament
It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.
NET Bible
I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.
New Heart English Bible
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
Noyes New Testament
Not that I seek for such a gift, but I do seek for fruit that may abound to your account.
Sawyer New Testament
Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account.
The Emphasized Bible
Not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is to abound unto your account.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Not that I am anxious for a gift; but I am anxious to see fruit abounding on your account.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is not that I am anxious for your gifts, but I am anxious to see the abundant return that will be placed to your account. I have enough of everything, and to spare.
Webster
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Weymouth New Testament
Not that I crave for gifts from you, but I do want to see abundant fruit bring you honour.
Williams New Testament
It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit.
World English Bible
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
Worrell New Testament
Not that I am seeking for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that abounds to your account.
Worsley New Testament
Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Youngs Literal Translation
not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;
Themes
Church » Duty of, to ministers
Fruit, spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Demanded
Fruitfulness » Spiritual encouraged
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Philippians 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Support For Paul's Ministry
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For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
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Cross References
Malachi 1:10
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors or tend the fire on my altar for free? I have no pleasure in you, said the LORD of the hosts, neither will the offering from your hand be agreeable unto me.
Titus 3:14
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they not be unfruitful.
Proverbs 19:17
He that gives unto the poor lends unto the LORD, and he will give him his reward.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Matthew 10:40-42
He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
Matthew 25:34-40
Then shall the King say unto those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 14:12-14
Then said he also to him that invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbours, lest they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
John 15:8
In this is my Father clarified, in that ye bear much fruit; and in this manner ye shall be my disciples.
John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it unto you.
Acts 20:33-34
I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
Romans 15:28
So that, when I have concluded this and have delivered unto them this fruit, I will come by you unto Spain.
1 Corinthians 9:11-15
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?
2 Corinthians 9:5
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would first go unto you and prepare beforehand your blessing, of which ye had given notice before that the same might be ready as a blessing, and not as of covetousness.
2 Corinthians 9:9-13
As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains for ever.
2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, Let no one think me a fool if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may yet glory a little.
Philippians 1:11
being filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God is witness,
1 Timothy 3:3
not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Titus 1:7
For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.
1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.
2 Peter 2:15
who forsaking the right way have erred, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Core.