but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

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But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

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Thy benefit

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk?
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.
So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.
shepherd the flock of God that is under your care, serving as overseersnot under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;
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