Philemon 1:14

The Scriptures 1998

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.

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.