12 Wherefore, my beloved, since you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence; effectually work out your own salvation, with fear and trembling;

13 for it is God who works effectually in you, both to will and to perform, on account of his benevolence.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

15 that you may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse race; among whom shine as lights in the world,

16 holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor have labored in vain.