Philemon 1:14 - The Scriptures 2009

But without your opinion I wished to do none at all, so that your good deed should not be by way of necessity, but voluntary.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But it has been my wish to do nothing about it without first consulting you and getting your consent, in order that your benevolence might not seem to be the result of compulsion or of pressure but might be voluntary [on your part].

American Standard Version (1901)

but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Common English Bible

However, I didn’t want to do anything without your consent so that your act of kindness would occur willingly and not under pressure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But I was willing to do nothing without your counsel, so as not to make use of your good deed as if out of necessity, but only willingly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.

Philemon 1:14 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

“And I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You.

Psalm 110:3

Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this voluntarily I have a reward, but if not voluntarily, I am entrusted with a management.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we rule over your belief, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for you stand by belief.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is present, it is well received according to what one has, not according to what he does not have –

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought it necessary to appeal to the brothers to come to you in advance, and arrange your promised blessing beforehand – this to be ready as a blessing and not as greediness.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not of grief or of necessity, for Elohim loves a joyous giver.