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13 [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while [a]effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and [b]delight.

14 Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [[c]against God] and [d]questioning and doubting [among yourselves],

15 That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world,

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  1. Philippians 2:13 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Philippians 2:13 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
  3. Philippians 2:14 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Philippians 2:14 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

13 for it is God who works in you(A) to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.(B)

14 Do everything without grumbling(C) or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless(D) and pure, “children of God(E) without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a](F) Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky

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  1. Philippians 2:15 Deut. 32:5