Philippians 4:17 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹⁷ Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.

¹⁷ He pitying the poor lends to Jehovah, and he will recompense to him his act.

¹ Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.

¹⁰ Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.

⁴⁰ He receiving you, receives me; and he receiving me, receives him sending me. ⁴¹ He receiving a prophet in a prophet's name, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he receiving the just in the name of the just, shall take the reward of the just ⁴² And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

³⁴ Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in: ³⁶ Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink ³⁸ And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around ³⁹ And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.

¹² And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee. ¹³ But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: ¹⁴ And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just.

⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

³³ Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired. ³⁴ And ye yourselves know, that to my necessities, and to those being with me, these hands served.

²⁸ Therefore having completed this, and sealed to them this fruit, I will come away by you to Spain.

¹¹ If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things? ¹² If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ. ¹³ Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar? ¹⁴ Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news. ¹⁵ But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

⁵ Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

⁹ (As has been written, He scattered; he gave to the poor: his justice remains forever. ¹⁰ And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;) ¹¹ Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God. ¹² For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God; ¹³ By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

¹⁶ Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

¹¹ Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹¹ Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

⁵ For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

³ Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

¹⁰ For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

¹⁴ And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

² Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

³ And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

¹¹ Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core.