Philippians 2:12-18 - Holding Fast To The Word Of Life

¹² So, then, my beloved - even as ye have always obeyed, not asin my presence only, but, now, much more, in my absence, with fear and trembling, your own salvation, be working out; ¹³ For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure. ¹⁴ All things, be doing, apart from murmurings and disputings; ¹⁵ In order that ye may become faultless and inviolate, children of God, blameless amidst a crooked and perverted generation, amongst whom ye appear as luminaries in the world, ¹⁶ A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: - ¹⁷ Nay! if I am even to be poured out as a drink-offering, upon the sacrifice and public ministry of your faith, I rejoice, yea rejoice together with you all, - ¹⁸ For the same cause, moreover, do, ye also, rejoice, yea rejoice together with me.