Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit. "
— Philippians 4:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”
“Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account. ”
“Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.”
“I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.”
“Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.”
“Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.”
“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”
Yet truly, you have done well by sharing in my tribulation.
But you also know, O Philippians, that at the beginning of the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not a single church shared with me in the plan of giving and receiving, except you alone.
For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me.
It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit.
But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
And to God our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.