Philemon 1:14
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
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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13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
17Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
20For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
30Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
11Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
21Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
3For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
10But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
12But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
19And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
31That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
32That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
13I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:
25Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
24Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
24Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
19For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
15Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.