12 So, then, my beloved, even as you always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, cultivate your salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings,
15 that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without fault in the midst of a crooked generation, even having been perverted, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,
16 holding up a word of life, for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, nor labored in vain.