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Philemon 1:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

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Each person should do as he has decided in his heart #– #not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves  a cheerful giver.


I know, my God, that you test the heart  and that you are pleased with what is right.  I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present  here giving joyfully and  willingly to you.


Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift  you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.


For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.


I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your  faith.


For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted  with a commission.


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





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