Philemon 1:14 Cross References - BLB

¹⁴ But I wanted to do nothing apart from your consent, so that your good may be not as according to necessity, but according to willingness.

⁷ Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

²⁴ Not that we lord it over your faith, but are fellow workers with you of joy; for in the faith you stand firm.

¹² For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable as if he might have, not as he does not have.

⁵ Therefore I esteemed it necessary to exhort the brothers that they should go before unto you and should complete beforehand your foreannounced blessing, thus this to be ready as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

⁷ each as he purposes in the heart, not out of regret or of necessity. For God loves a cheerful giver.

⁸ Therefore, having much boldness in Christ to order you what is befitting, ⁹ rather, I exhort you for the sake of love, being such a one as Paul, now aged and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but willingly according to God; and not for base gain but eagerly, ³ not as exercising lordship over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.