Philemon 1:14
but, without your consent, I was willing to do nothing; that your beneficence might not be by necessity, but by choice.
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Summary
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Bible References
Thy benefit
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever serves as a soldier at his own charges; Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
2 Corinthians 8:12
for, if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he has not.
2 Corinthians 9:5
I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness.
1 Peter 5:2
feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;