Philippians 2:13
For Hashem is the one working in you, both to will and to work according to His chafetz (good pleasure of His will). + 2:13 Ezra 1:5
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 murmurings and madon,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:58That He may incline levavenu (our hearts) unto Him, to walk in all his ways, and to be shomer over His mitzvot, and His chukkot, and His mishpatim, which He commanded Avoteinu.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also in Yehudah the Yad HaElohim was to give them lev echad to carry out the mitzvat HaMelech and of the sarim, by the word of Hashem.
Ezra 1:5Then rose up the chief of the avot of Yehudah and Binyamin, and the kohanim, and the Levi'im, with all them whose ruach HaElohim had stirred up, to go up to build the Beis Hashem which is in Yerushalayim.
Nehemiah 2:4Then HaMelech said unto me, For what dost Thou make request? So I davened to Elohei HaShomayim.
Psalms 119:36Incline my lev unto Thy edot, 1 and not to betza (covetousness, selfish gain). 1
Proverbs 21:1The lev melech is in the yad Hashem, as the channels of mayim; 1 He directeth it wherever He will. 1
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 →