Philippians 4:17

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¹⁶ For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent once and again to aid me in my need. ¹⁷ Not that I seek a gift; but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. ¹⁸ But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

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Titus 3:14

Let our people also learn to practice good works for necessary uses, 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 the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 14:12-14

Then he said also to him that had invited him: "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.

John 15:8

In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

Acts 20:33-34

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Romans 15:28

When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.

1 Corinthians 9:11-15

If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?

2 Corinthians 9:5

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

2 Corinthians 9:9-13

as it is written: He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.

2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

Philippians 1:11

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

Philippians 4:11

I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither nattering words did we at any time use, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

1 Timothy 3:3

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Titus 1:7

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

1 Peter 5:2

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

2 Peter 2:3

and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber.

2 Peter 2:15

who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.