<p>2:13 <i>For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work, for His good pleasure</i>- Christianity is meant to be lived in a community. Indeed, God has created salvation in a community, in the body of Christ. &ldquo;Work out your plural salvation... for it is God who is working in your midst as a body&rdquo; (Phil. 2:12,13). But our working out (:12) is in response to God's working within us, in our hearts. The initiative is His. He works in us to work s.w. His will- this is fair emphasis on the fact that God is really at work within us, in our hearts. And the will of God is that none of His should perish, but we should all be saved. Eph. 1:11 likewise connects God's will with His working in us. Clearly enough, this working is by the Spirit, which works s.w. in each believer (1 Cor. 12:6,11; Gal. 3:5). Eph. 3:18-20 states that this working s.w. is through the gift of the Spirit &quot;in the inner man&quot;. But we are to respond to that working of God- just as Paul laboured according to God's working which worked mightily within him (Col. 1:29).</p>