12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

13 for it is God who is working in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without grumbling and disputing,

15 in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.