‘Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit which increases to your account.'

So he stresses that they must not think from what he had said that he was one who sought for a gift. As we see from his other letters he was very concerned lest anyone thought that he was seeking to benefit materially from preaching the Gospel. He thus lets them know that his great hope in the matter was rather that their giving should be seen by God as ‘fruit which increased to their account'. In the end it was reward for them that he was seeking, not benefit for himself, something which is always the test of the true man of God.

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