¹⁴ But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

¹⁴ but without your consent I did not want to do anything , so that your goodness would not be, in effect , by compulsion but of your own free will .

¹⁴ But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.