Philippians 2:12-13
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Obeying God is how we do our part to work out our salvation; God's working in us is how His will is accomplished in and through us. We can do nothing apart from Christ, yet in Him as we follow in doing the things He taught us in His word, so we work it out - our sanctification (the continuing change of salvation in us). The salvation itself is all by the grace and mercy of God in Christ; the out working day to day afterwards is the conforming to His image (sanctification). So we do not work FOR salvation, but WORK OUT that which we have been given.
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