Philemon 1:14 - Tree of Life Version

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness wouldn’t be by force but by free will.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that You search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. With integrity of heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here willingly contribute to You.

Psalm 110:3

Your people will be a freewill offering in a day of your power. In holy splendors, from dawn’s womb, yours is the dew of your youth.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have been entrusted with a commission.

1 Corinthians 9:7

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink its milk?

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we lord it over you in matters of faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy—for in the faith you are standing firm.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is present, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he doesn’t have.

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on to you and arrange ahead of time your generous gift that had been promised beforehand, so that it would be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Let each one give as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion—for God loves a cheerful giver.