2:12 这样看来,我亲爱的弟兄,你们既是常顺服的,不但我在你们那里,就是我如今不在你们那里,更是顺服的,就当恐惧战兢,做成你们得救的工夫。
2:13 因为你们立志行事,都是 神在你们心里运行,为要成就他的美意。
2:14 凡所行的,都不要发怨言、起争论,
2:15 使你们无可指摘,诚实无伪,在这弯曲悖谬的世代,作 神无瑕疵的儿女。你们显在这世代中,好像明光照耀,
2:16 将生命的道表明出来,叫我在基督的日子好夸我没有空跑,也没有徒劳。
12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
13for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
14Do everything without complaining or arguing,
15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
16as you hold out the word of life - in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.