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Therefore, my beloved, 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;

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

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Do all things without complaining and disputing,

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that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

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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.