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For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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Verse 13. It is God who worketh in you both to will and to accomplish. We can neither have a will, nor begin, nor fulfil any thing of ourselves, in order to a reward in heaven. Witham.—Our free-will is not taken away, or we should not be commanded to work; but it is added, with fear and trembling, says Saint Augustine, that we might not be proud of our good works. De grat. et de lib. ab. c. ix.
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