Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His 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 then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling and arguing,


Cross References

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

Ezra 1:5

So the family leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone God had motivated—prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 12:6

And there are different activities, but the same God activates each gift in each person.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

Ephesians 1:5

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

1 Kings 8:58

so that He causes us to be devoted to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.

1 Chronicles 29:14-18

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and we have given You only what comes from Your own hand.

2 Chronicles 30:12

Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the Lord.

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:

Ezra 7:27

Praise Yahweh the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king’s mind to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart to Your decrees
and not to material gain.

Psalm 141:4

Do not let my heart turn to any evil thing
or perform wicked acts
with men who commit sin.
Do not let me feast on their delicacies.

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

Isaiah 26:12

Lord, You will establish peace for us,
for You have also done all our work for us.

Jeremiah 31:33

“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

Luke 12:32

Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

John 3:27

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

John 6:45

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

John 6:65

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

Acts 11:21

The Lord’s hand was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

Romans 9:11

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

Romans 9:16

So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

2 Corinthians 3:5

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

Ephesians 1:9

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

Ephesians 1:11

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

Ephesians 2:8

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

2 Timothy 1:9

He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.

Titus 3:4-5

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love
for mankind appeared,

James 1:16-18

Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king asked me, “What is your request?”

So I prayed to the God of heaven

Psalm 110:3

Your people will volunteer
on Your day of battle.
In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,
the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

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