Philippians 4:17

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¹⁶ for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account. ¹⁸ But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

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Titus 3:14

and let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful.

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 to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Luke 14:12-14

And he said also to him that had invited him, When you make a breakfast, or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also at some time invite you in return, and a compensation be made to you.

John 15:8

By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

Acts 20:33-34

I have coveted no man's silver or gold or clothing;

Romans 15:28

Having therefore performed this, and sealed to them this service, I will go by you to Spain;

1 Corinthians 9:11-15

If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly things?

2 Corinthians 9:5

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

2 Corinthians 9:9-13

as it is written, He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness continues forever.

2 Corinthians 11:16

Again, I say let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, even as a foolish man bear with me that I may boast a little.

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we used at no time a word of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.

1 Peter 5:2

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

2 Peter 2:3

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

2 Peter 2:15

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

Jude 1:11

Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.