Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
Bible in Basic English
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
14Do all things without protests and arguments;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:58Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:12And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.
Ezra 1:5Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:4Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
Psalms 119:36Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
Proverbs 21:1The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
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 →