New American Standard Bible 2020

Philippians 2:12-16

12So then, my beloved, 1just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own 2salvation with 3fear and trembling; 13for it is 4God who is at work in you, both to 5desire and to work 6for His good pleasure.

14Do all things without 7complaining or arguments; 15so that you will 8prove yourselves to be 9blameless and innocent, 10children of God above reproach in the midst of a 11crooked and perverse generation, among whom you 12 13appear as 14lights in the world, 16holding firmly the word of life, so that on 15the day of Christ I can take pride because I did not 16run in vain nor 17labor in vain.

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1. Philippians 2:12 Phil 1:5, 6; 4:15 ↩
2. Philippians 2:12 Heb 5:9 ↩
3. Philippians 2:12 2 Cor 7:15 ↩
4. Philippians 2:13 Rom 12:3; 1 Cor 12:6; 15:10; Heb 13:21 ↩
5. Philippians 2:13 Or be willing ↩
6. Philippians 2:13 Eph 1:5 ↩
7. Philippians 2:14 1 Cor 10:10; 1 Pet 4:9 ↩
8. Philippians 2:15 Or become ↩
9. Philippians 2:15 Luke 1:6; Phil 3:6 ↩
10. Philippians 2:15 Matt 5:45; Eph 5:1 ↩
11. Philippians 2:15 Deut 32:5; Acts 2:40 ↩
12. Philippians 2:15 Or shine ↩
13. Philippians 2:15 Matt 5:14-16 ↩
14. Philippians 2:15 Or luminaries, stars ↩
15. Philippians 2:16 Phil 1:6 ↩
16. Philippians 2:16 Gal 2:2 ↩
17. Philippians 2:16 Is 49:4; Gal 4:11; 1 Thess 3:5 ↩

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