Philippians 2:13

It is God who works in believers to will and to act for His good purpose. Our effort is empowered by God's prior work within us.

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• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Cor 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• 2 Tim 1:9who 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 times eternal,
• Rom 9:16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• John 3:27John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• 2 Th 1:11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
• 1 Cor 12:6There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
• 1 Kgs 8:58that 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.
• Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Titus 3:4–5But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Ps 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• John 6:65He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
• Rom 9:11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
• Jer 32:38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Ezra 7:27Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• 1 Chr 29:14–18But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
• Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
• 2 Chr 30:12Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
• Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
• Isa 26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
• Ps 141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
• 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Acts 11:21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
• Neh 2:4Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

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