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 I preferred to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good deed might be voluntary and not something forced.

¹⁴ but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.