Philippians 2:13

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

Updated King James Version

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

In Context

12Wherefore, my beloved, as all of you 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.

14Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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Cross References

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

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

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

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

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

Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it anywhere 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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