Philemon 1:14 Cross References - Sawyer

¹⁴ but without your consent I will do nothing, that your service may not be compulsory but voluntary;

⁷ Who ever goes on a military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of the flock?

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

²⁴ Not that we are lords of your faith, but co-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith.

¹² For if there is a willing mind, a man is acceptable according to what he has, and not according to what he has not.

⁵ I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

⁷ Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with regret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

⁸ Wherefore, having great boldness to command you what is fit, ⁹ on account of love I rather request; being such as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

² feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind, ³ not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;