12 And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing
15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, God's children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world
16 as you hold out the word of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.