Philippians 2:12-14

1599 Geneva Bible

¹²^[a]Wherefore my beloved, as ye have always obeyed me, not as in my presence only, but now much more in mine absence, so ^[b]make an end of your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹³^[c]For it is God which worketh in you both ^[d]the will and the deed, even of his good pleasure.

¹⁴^[e]Do all things without ^(A)murmuring and reasonings,

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Philippians 2:12 The conclusion: We must go on to salvation with humility and submission, by the way of our vocation.
Philippians 2:12 He is said to make an end of his salvation, which runneth in the race of righteousness.
Philippians 2:13 A most sure and grounded argument against pride, for that we have nothing in us praiseworthy but it cometh of the free gift of God, and is without us, for we have no ability or power, so much as to will well (much less to do well) but only of the free mercy of God.
Philippians 2:13 Why then, we are not stocks, but yet we do not will well of nature, but only because God hath made of our naughty will a good will.
Philippians 2:14 He describeth modesty by the contrary effects of pride, teaching us, that it is far both from all malicious, and close or inward hatred and also from open contentions and brawlings.

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