Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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

In Context

12So then, my beloved, as you always obey, not only in my presence but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

14Do all things without complaining or arguing.

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Cross References

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

2 Chronicles 30:12The hand of God also came on Judah, to give them one heart, to carry out the command of the king and leaders by the word of Yahweh.

Ezra 1:5Then the heads of the ancestors' clans of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and Levites, and everyone whose spirit God stirred to go and build his house arose.

Nehemiah 2:4Then the king said to me, “What do you want me to do?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Psalms 119:36Direct my heart toward your covenant decrees 1 and away from unrighteous gain. 1

Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of Yahweh; 1 he turns it wherever he pleases. 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 →

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