Philippians 2:13

“For it is God which worketh in you, etc.] Which is both an encouragement to persons conscious of their own weakness to work, as before exhorted to; (see <370204>Haggai 2:4); and a reason and argument for humility and meekness, and against pride and vain glory, since all we have, and do, is from God; and also points out the spring, principle, and foundation of all good works; namely, the grace of God wrought in the heart, which is an internal work, and purely the work of God: by this men become the workmanship of God, created unto good works, (<490210>Ephesians 2:10), and are new men, and fitted for the performance of acts of righteousness, and true holiness; and this grace, which God works…”

“For--encouragement to work: "For it is God who worketh in you," always present with you, though I be absent. It is not said, "Work out your own salvation, though it is God," &c., but, "because it is God who," &c. The will, and the power to work, being first instalments of His grace, encourage us to make full proof of, and carry out to the end, the "salvation" which He has first "worked," and is still "working in" us, enabling us to "work it out." "Our will does nothing thereunto without grace; but grace is inactive without our will" [ST. BERNARD]. Man is, in different senses, entirely active, and entirely passive: God producing all, and we acting all. What He produced is our own acts. It is…”

“For it is God that worketh in you - This is given as a reason for making an effort to be saved, or for working out our salvation. It is often thought to be the very reverse, and people often feel that if God works “in us to will and to do,” there can be no need of our making an effort, and that there would be no use in it. If God does all the work, say they, why should we not patiently sit still, and wait until He puts forth His power and accomplishes in us what He wills? It is of importance, therefore, to understand what this declaration of the apostle means, in order to see whether this objection is valid, or whether the fact that God “works in us” is to be regarded as a reason why we…”

“For it is God - God alone, who is with you, though I am not. That worketh in you according to his good pleasure - Not for any merit of yours. Yet his influences are not to supersede, but to encourage, our own efforts. Work out your own salvation - Here is our duty. For it is God that worketh in you - Here is our encouragement. And O, what a glorious encouragement, to have the arm of Omnipotence stretched out for our support and our succour! Philippians 2:14”

“2:13 For God is working in you: God empowers and energizes believers’ lives (see John 15:5; 1 Cor 12:6; 15:10; 2 Cor 3:5; 1 Thes 2:13). Both the desire and the power to do what pleases him come from God.”

“God: Ch2 30:12; Isa 26:12; Jer 31:33, Jer 32:38; Joh 3:27; Act 11:21; Co2 3:5; Heb 13:21; Jam 1:16-18 to will: Kg1 8:58; Ch1 29:14-18; Ezr 1:1, Ezr 1:5, Ezr 7:27; Neh 2:4; Psa 110:3, Psa 119:36; Psa 141:4; Pro 21:1; Joh 6:45, Joh 6:65; Eph 2:4, Eph 2:5; Th2 2:13, Th2 2:14; Tit 3:4, Tit 3:5; Pe1 1:3 good: Luk 12:32; Rom 9:11, Rom 9:16; Eph 1:5, Eph 1:9, Eph 1:11, Eph 2:8; Th2 1:11; Ti2 1:9 Philippians 2:14”