But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.
Philemon 1:14
Surrounding context
1:13 whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
1:14 But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.
1:15 For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,