Philemon 1:14 Cross References - CAB

¹⁴ But I wished to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good might not be by necessity, but by being voluntary.

¹⁷ And I know, O Lord, that You are He that searches the hearts, and You love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart. And now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, willingly offering to You.

³ With You is dominion in the day of Your power, in the splendors of Your saints; I have begotten You from the womb before the morning.

⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends 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 have been entrusted with a commission.

²⁴ Not that we lord it over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

¹² For if there is first a readiness, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brothers, that they should go before me to you, and should arrange in advance your generous gift, which you had previously promised, that this would be ready, thus as a blessing and not as grudgingly given.

⁷ Let each one give just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

⁸ Therefore, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is fitting, ⁹ rather on account of love I appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the elder, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ--

² shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not by compulsion, but rather willingly, not in fondness for dishonest gain, but rather eagerly; ³ nor as being masters over the flock under you, but rather being examples to the flock.