13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-13)I. He exhorts them to diligence and seriousness in the Christian course: Work out your own salvation . It is the salvation of our souls (1 Pet. 1:9), and our eternal salvation (Heb. 5:9), and contains deliverance from all the evils sin had brought upon us and exposed us to, and the possession of all good and whatsoever is necessary to our complete and final happiness. Observe, It concerns us above…
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