Philippians 4:17

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¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent; ¹⁷ not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account; ¹⁸ and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

With God

No

Malachi 1:10

Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

Titus 3:14

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

Micah 7:1

My woe is to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul.

Matthew 10:40-42

'He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,

Matthew 25:34-40

'Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Luke 14:12-14

And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

John 15:8

'In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

John 15:16

'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

Acts 20:33-34

'The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

Romans 15:28

This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;

1 Corinthians 9:11-15

If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

2 Corinthians 9:5

Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

2 Corinthians 9:9-13

(according as it hath been written, 'He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

2 Corinthians 11:16

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

Philippians 1:11

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

Philippians 4:11

not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;

1 Thessalonians 2:5

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

1 Timothy 6:10

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

Titus 1:7

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Hebrews 6:10

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

1 Peter 5:2

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

2 Peter 2:15

having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

Jude 1:11

woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.