Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.
Catholic Public Domain 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
14And do everything without murmuring or hesitation.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:58But may he incline our hearts to himself, so that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and whatever judgments he commanded to our fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:12Truly, the hand of God was working in Judah, to give them one heart, so that they would accomplish the word of the Lord, according to the precept of the king and of the rulers.
Ezra 1:5And the leaders of the fathers from Judah and from Benjamin, with the priests, and the Levites, and all those whose spirit was stirred by God, rose up, so that they might ascend to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:4And the king said to me: “What would you request?” And I prayed to the God of heaven.
Proverbs 21:1Just as with the dividing of the waters, so also is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord. He shall bend it whichever way he wills.
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 →