Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

In Context

12Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

14Do all things without grumblings and arguments,

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:12Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.

Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred, rose up to go up to build the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:4Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Psalms 119:36Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.

Matthew Henry on Philippians 2:13-14

Practical Religion. ( a. d. 62.) 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. I. He exhorts them to diligence and seriousness in the Christian course: Work out your own salvation. It is the salvation of our souls ( 1 Pet. i. 9 ), and our eternal salvation ( Heb. v. 9 ), and contains deliverance from all the evils… Read the whole commentary →

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