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Philemon 1:14

New American Bible - revised edition

but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.

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I know, my God, that you put hearts to the test and that you take pleasure in integrity. With a whole heart I have willingly given all these things, and now with joy I have seen your people here present also giving to you generously.

Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like dew I begot you.

If I do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating its produce? Or who shepherds a flock without using some of the milk from the flock?

Not that we lord it over your faith; rather, we work together for your joy, for you stand firm in the faith.

For if the eagerness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have;

So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.

Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.




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