Philemon 1:14 - Modern King James Version

¹⁴ But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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)

¹⁴ but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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.

Philemon 1:14 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:17

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

Psalm 110:3

Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You have the dew of Your youth.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what one does not have.

2 Corinthians 9:5

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of blessing, and not as of covetousness.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.