Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.
New American Standard Bible
for it is
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.
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]
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Philippians 2:13
Devotionals containing Philippians 2:13
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Philippians 2:13
Images Philippians 2:13
Prayers for Philippians 2:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Holding Fast To The Word Of Life
12 Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval. 14 Do all things without grumblings and arguments,
Cross References
Hebrews 13:21
may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred, rose up to go up to build the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
Ephesians 1:5
Who predestined us for sonship through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the desire of his will,
1 Kings 8:58
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Chronicles 29:14-18
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
2 Chronicles 30:12
Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.
Ezra 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
Ezra 7:27
Blessed be LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem,
Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Psalm 141:4
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. And let me not eat of their dainties.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.
Isaiah 26:12
LORD, thou will ordain peace for us, for thou have also wrought all our works for us.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my law{s (LXX/NT)} in their inward parts, and I will write {them (LXX/NT)} in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th
Jeremiah 32:38
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.
John 3:27
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me.
John 6:65
And he said, Because of this I have said to you that no man is able to come to me, if it is not given to him from my Father.
Acts 11:21
And the hand of Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Romans 9:11
(for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls),
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
Ephesians 1:9
Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his desire, which he purposed within himself
Ephesians 1:11
in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,
Ephesians 2:8
For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,
2 Thessalonians 1:11
For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth,
2 Timothy 1:9
Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.
Titus 3:4-5
But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared,
James 1:16-18
Be not led astray, my beloved brothers.
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Psalm 110:3
Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,