Hekon describes acting by one’s own willingness, contrasted with action that is not willing.

The attested use describes willing agency: 1 Corinthians 9:17 contrasts doing an action willingly with acting unwillingly, while Romans 8:20 denies willing agency in creation’s subjection to futility.

1. Willingly undertaken or not willingly imposed · dominant

   In 1 Corinthians 9:17, the nominative masculine form occurs in a conditional statement about doing an action willingly, set against doing it unwillingly; the APB renders the contrast “voluntarily” and “unwillingly.” In Romans 8:20, the nominative feminine form occurs in the clause about creation’s subjection to futility, which the APB renders as occurring “not voluntarily.”

   1 Corinthians 9:17Romans 8:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the contrast with “voluntarily” in 1 Corinthians 9:17 and “not voluntarily” in Romans 8:20. These renderings confirm the clauses’ contrast without establishing finer distinctions.