Philemon 1:14 Cross References - Noyes

¹⁴ but I chose to do nothing without thy consent, that thy benefit may be not as from necessity, but willingly.

⁷ Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.

²⁴ not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. For in respect to faith ye stand firm.

¹² For if there be first the willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, not according to what he hath not.

⁵ I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

⁷ Each one, as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.

⁸ Wherefore, though I have much boldness in Christ to enjoin upon thee that which is befitting, ⁹ yet for loves sake I beseech thee rather; being such a one as Paul an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

² tend the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for base gain, but with ready mind; ³ not as lording it over your allotted charge, but being examples to the flock;