Philippians 4:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐχ ὅτι ἐπιζητῶ τὸ δόμα: ἀλλʼ ἐπιζητῶ τὸν καρπὸν τὸν πλεονάζοντα εἰς λόγον ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Not that I epizētō the doma: but I epizētō the karpon the pleonazonta to logon of you.

Grammar Details

*epizētō*: present indicative, 1st person singular - I seek/desire
*doma*: accusative, neuter, singular - gift
*karpon*: accusative, masculine, singular - fruit
*pleonazonta*: present participle, accusative, masculine, singular - increasing/abounding
*logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - account

Word Meanings

*epizētō*: I seek/desire/search for/look for
*doma*: gift/present/donation
*karpon*: fruit/produce/outcome/result
*pleonazonta*: increasing/abounding/multiplying/growing
*logon*: account/record/credit

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Referenced Verses

Titus 3:14 : 14 And let our [people] also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Heb 6:10 : 10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the {G2873} love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.
1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Phil 4:11 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
Mal 1:10 : 10 Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle [fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Matt 10:40-42 : 40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Matt 25:34-40 : 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed 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 drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; 36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? 38 And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, [even] these least, ye did it unto me.
Luke 14:12-14 : 12 And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. 13 But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not [wherewith] to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.
John 15:8 : 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and [so] shall ye be my disciples.
John 15:16 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Acts 20:33-34 : 33 I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
Rom 15:28 : 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.
1 Cor 9:11-15 : 11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
2 Cor 9:5 : 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be {G3779} ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
2 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever. 10 And he that supplieth seed to the sower and {G5524} bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: 11 ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but {G2076} aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God; 13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;
Prov 19:17 : 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.
Titus 1:7 : 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
Mic 7:1 : 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig.
2 Cor 11:16 : 16 I say again, let no man think me {G1511} foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that {G2504} I also may glory a little.
Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
2 Pet 2:15 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

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