Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

International Standard Version

For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

A Conservative Version

For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.

An Understandable Version

for it is God who is at work in you, both to motivate the desire and to carry out what pleases Him.

Anderson New Testament

for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

Bible in Basic English

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

Darby Translation

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

Godbey New Testament

for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.

Goodspeed New Testament

For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

John Wesley New Testament

For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.

Julia Smith Translation

For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

Moffatt New Testament

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

Montgomery New Testament

for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

NET Bible

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort -- for the sake of his good pleasure -- is God.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

for God works in you both to will and to work of his good pleasure.

The Emphasized Bible

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For it is God who worketh effectually in you both to will and to perform of his good pleasure.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

Williams New Testament

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

for it is God Who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Worsley New Testament

for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

it is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

ἐνεργέω 
Energeo 
Usage: 21

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

to will
θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

to do
ἐνεργέω 
Energeo 
Usage: 21

of
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

References

Easton

Fausets

Images Philippians 2:13

Context Readings

Holding Fast To The Word Of Life

12 So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, 13 for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 14 All things do without murmurings and reasonings,


Cross References

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

Ezra 1:5

And heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin rise, and the priests and the Levites, even every one whose spirit God hath waked, to go up to build the house of Jehovah, that is in Jerusalem;

1 Corinthians 12:6

and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

1 Corinthians 15:10

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

Ephesians 1:5

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

1 Kings 8:58

to incline our heart unto Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers;

1 Chronicles 29:14-18

yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee;

2 Chronicles 30:12

Also, in Judah hath the hand of God been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Jehovah;

Ezra 1:1

And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, at the completion of the word of Jehovah from the mouth of Jeremiah, hath Jehovah waked up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he causeth an intimation to pass over into all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

Ezra 7:27

Blessed is Jehovah, God of our fathers, who hath given such a thing as this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem,

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

Psalm 141:4

Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

Proverbs 21:1

Rivulets of waters is the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

Isaiah 26:12

O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.

Jeremiah 31:33

For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

Jeremiah 32:38

and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;

Luke 12:32

'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

John 3:27

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

John 6:45

it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

John 6:65

and he said, 'Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

Acts 11:21

and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

Romans 9:11

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

Romans 9:16

so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

2 Corinthians 3:5

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

Ephesians 1:9

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

Ephesians 1:11

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

Ephesians 2:4-5

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

Ephesians 2:8

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

2 Thessalonians 1:11

for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

2 Timothy 1:9

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

Titus 3:4-5

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

James 1:16-18

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

Nehemiah 2:4

And the king saith to me, 'For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

Psalm 110:3

Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

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