Philippians 2:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

New Living Translation
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

English Standard Version
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Berean Study Bible
For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

New American Standard Bible
for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.

NASB 1995
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

NASB 1977
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.

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

Contemporary English Version
God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.

Good News Translation
because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.

International Standard Version
For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

NET Bible
for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort--for the sake of his good pleasure--is God.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

New King James Version
for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

King James 2000 Bible
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

New Heart English Bible
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

World English Bible
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

American King James Version
For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

American Standard Version
for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

A Faithful Version
For it is God Who works in you both to will and to do according to His good pleasure.

Darby Bible Translation
for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

English Revised Version
for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For it is God which worketh in you, both the will and the deede, euen of his good pleasure.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of good wyll.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For it is God which worketh in you both the wyll and the deed, euen of his owne good wyll.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For it is god which worketh in you both ye will and also yt dede eve of good will
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Berean Literal Bible
For God is the One working in you both to will and to work according to His good pleasure.

Young's Literal Translation
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Smith's Literal Translation
For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For God is working in you to will and to work on behalf of His good pleasure.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For God is carefully working in you both to desire and to do that thing which you desire.

Lamsa Bible
For it is God who inspires you with the will to do the good things which you desire to do.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

Godbey New Testament
for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.

Haweis New Testament
For it is God who worketh effectually in you both to will and to perform of his good pleasure.

Mace New Testament
for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

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.

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.
















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