12 So then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with reverence and awe.

13 For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

14 Do everything without murmurings or disputings

15 that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world,

16 holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.