“But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Philemon 1 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.