12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye 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.
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And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, …
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-13)I. He exhorts them to diligence and seriousness in the Christian course: Work out your own salvation . It is the salvation of our souls (1 Pet. 1:9), and our eternal salvation (Heb. 5:9), and contains deliverance from all the evils sin had brought upon us and exposed us to, and the possession of all good and whatsoever is necessary to our complete and final happiness. Observe, It concerns us above…
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