For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

I am convinced and confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will [continue to] perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus [the time of His return].

But you people know about his proven reliability, how he served with me in advancing [the work of] the Gospel just like a son working with his father.

And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation;

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not.