![]() ![]() Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Read on your preferred digital device, including smart phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Take a 1-minute survey to join our mailing list and receive a free ebook in the format of your choosing. Get a free copy of the ebook ‘Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die’ by telling us a little bit about yourself! Even the desire (“to will”) to do what is good comes from God but he also works in the believer to generate actual choices of the good, so that the desires result in actions. ![]() both to will and to work for his good pleasure. But as Philippians 2:13 demonstrates, these works are the result of God’s work within his people. The Philippians’ continued obedience is an inherent part of “working out” their salvation in this sense. ![]() In Philippians 2:12 Paul means “salvation” in terms of progressively coming to experience all of the aspects and blessings of salvation. While Philippians 2:12 may seem to suggest salvation by works, it is clear that Paul rejects any such teaching (cf. They can rejoice in God’s empowering presence even as they work hard at living responsible Christian lives. Rather, it is God’s love and enabling grace that will see them through: it is God who works in you. But while God’s justice is a cause for sober living (“fear and trembling”), it is not as though Paul wants the Philippians to be anxious that they can never be good enough to merit God’s favor. They cannot be content with past glories but need to demonstrate their faith day by day as they nurture their relationship with God. 2:8) in the past and should continue to do so as they work out their salvation with fear and trembling. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Free gift is the opposite of something one deserves, which fits Paul’s earlier emphasis on justification by grace alone, through faith alone (trusting in Christ for justification see Rom. Wages implies that the punishment for sin is what one has earned and what one deserves. Those who give themselves to sin will die both physically and eternally, whereas Christians are assured of eternal life. Romans 6:23įor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. All commentary sections adapted from the ESV Study Bible. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife ( N) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. ( L) 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ( M) 32 This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church- 30 for we are members of his body. ![]() ( J) 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives ( K) as their own bodies. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands ( D) in everything.Ģ5 Husbands, love your wives, ( E) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ( F) 26 to make her holy, ( G) cleansing her by the washing ( H) with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself ( I) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ( B) 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, ( C) his body, of which he is the Savior. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands ( A) as you do to the Lord. ![]()
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