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

¹² Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation. ¹³ For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire. ¹⁴ Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit, ¹⁵ so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless--irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain. ¹⁷ Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all. ¹⁸ And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.