Philemon 1:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your good deed might be voluntary and not something forced.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.

Psalm 110:3

Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day you lead your forces on the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning, like dew, your youth will come to you.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this of my own will, I have a wage, but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who at any time pays the expenses for doing military service? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not get any of its milk?

2 Corinthians 1:24

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

2 Corinthians 8:12

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

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for this bountiful gift that you have promised, so that it may be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an extortion.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.