# First Hevetic Confession
## Article 9 - Of Free Will
To man we do attribute free will, that we experience the wanting and willing to do good and evil. Indeed, we may do evil of our own free will, but we do not embrace and pursue good, except by the grace of Christ, enlightened and impelled by his Spirit. “For it is God who works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Salvation is from God. Destruction is from us.

[Hosea 13](/get-passage/Hosea+13); [Philippians 2](/get-passage/Philippians+2).