# But I did not want to do anything without your consent Paul states a double negative to mean the opposite. Alternate translation: "But I wanted to make sure that you approved of everything I did" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublenegatives]]) # I did not want your good deed to be from necessity but from good will "I did not want you to do this good deed because I commanded you to do it, but because you wanted to do it" # but from good will "but because you freely chose to do the right thing"