14 Bible Verses about People Willing
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And--if you are ready to accept it--John is himself the Elijah who was destined to come.
That was why I came, when I was sent for, without raising any objection. And now I ask your reason for sending for me."
I never shrank from telling you anything that could be helpful to you, or from teaching you both in public and in private.
If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.
And now I want you to complete the work, so that its completion may correspond with your willing readiness--in proportion, of course, to your means.
For, where there is willingness, a man's gift is valued by its comparison with what he has, and not with what he has not.
For Titus has responded to my appeals and, in his great earnestness, is starting to go to you of his own accord.
I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.
But I do not wish to do anything without your consent, because I want your generosity to be voluntary and not, as it were, compulsory.
I urge you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;
Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."
Watch and pray," he said to them all, "that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."
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