6 Bible Verses about No Compulsion
Most Relevant Verses
And the drinking was according to the law, no one compelling, for so the king had commanded every chief of his house that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?
(But not even Titus, the one with me, a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.)
But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly.
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- Compulsion (9 instances)