Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, you have always obeyed. Keep at it now, not only as if I were there with you, but much more because I am away: with fear and trembling, keep working out your own salvation.
Treated in 20 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon ·
Spread the Sails cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 Paul does not tell the Philippians to be still because God is working. He tells them to…
- Practical Religion ·
Reality cites Phil. ii. 12
…and do in a slovenly fashion, it is the great work of "working out his own salvation." (Phil. ii. 12.) Believer in Christ, remember this! Whatever you do in religion, do it well. Be real. Be…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
July cites Phil. ii. 12
…for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13. What a staggering weight of thought is excited by these words! Stay, my soul, and…
- The Key Teachings of John Owen ·
Through the Spirit cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 So the Christian neither sits back waiting to be made holy nor strains to make himself…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted cites Phil. 2:12
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure,” (Phil. 2:12, 13). He ascribes to them a part in acting that they may not indulge in carnal sloth, but…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
Grace That Goes Before cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 Christians have often set these two verses against each other, as though the second meant…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
April cites Phil. ii. 12
…for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13. It is not your business and mine to study whether we shall get to heaven, or even to…
- Real Questions – Book 1 ·
Can I Lose My Salvation? cites Philippians 2:12–13
…to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you” (Philippians 2:12–13). If you’re worried right now Here’s something both sides would tell you. If you are…
- Real Questions – Book 2 ·
If God Knows Everything, Do I Really Have Free Will? cites Philippians 2:12–13
…salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you to will and to act” (Philippians 2:12–13). Both main views come from people reading the Bible carefully, and both have to wrestle…
- The Key Teachings of Hannah Whitall Smith ·
God’s Side and Man’s Side cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12
…but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. PHILIPPIANS 2:12 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge…
- The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones ·
Work Out Your Own Salvation cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 Lloyd-Jones preached through the Epistle to the Philippians in the years after the war…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
The Freedom of the Will cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 Notice the logic of that for. Paul does not say: work hard, because God has done His part…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
Pressing into the Kingdom cites PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13
…For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. PHILIPPIANS 2:12–13 The second objection was subtler: if we labour hard, shall we not start trusting our…
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ·
Of the great danger and folly, of not intending to be as eminent and exemplary as we can, in the practice of all Christian virtues cites Phil. ii. 12
…that requires all our diligence, that is to be worked out with fear and trembling. [Phil. ii. 12] We are told, that "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life…
- Our Daily Walk ·
November cites Php 2:12
…His will, working within us (Php 2:13) what afterwards we work out in character and deed (Php 2:12, Php 2:14). We do not go in front, but follow behind. We are led by the Spirit. The man…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Christ alone advanceth this government cites Phil. ii. 12
…pleasure. And therefore we should work out our salvation in a jealous fear and trembling, Phil. ii. 12, lest by unreverent and presumptuous walking, we give him cause to suspend his gracious…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion cites Phil. 2:12
…as in the presence of lookers on; in secret, as well, yea more, than in public:” alleging Phil. 2:12, and Matt. 6:6. A true Christian doubtless delights in religious fellowship, and…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
On Working out our own Salvation cites Phil. 2:12–13
…For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Phil. 2:12–13. 1. Some great truths, as the being and attributes of God, and the difference between…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 18 — The Righteousness of Works Improperly Inferred from Rewards cites Phil. 2:12
…of immortality. Nay, for this reason they are aptly said to work out their own salvation (Phil. 2:12), while by exerting themselves in good works they aspire to eternal life, just as they…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
The Normal Christian Life cites Philippians 2:12-13
…for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13, ASV). God's inward work grounds human response. The mature form of Nee's teaching is…