Verse 12
5. Exhortation applying Christ’s example, Philippians 2:12-16.
12. Wherefore, my beloved Reminding them of their habitual obedience to him, the apostle exhorts them, now that he is not present to help them, to great care in working out each one his own salvation until it is complete in heaven. The emphatic words are, with fear and trembling, the opposite of the secure, self-sufficient spirit rebuked in previous verses, and the murmurings and disputings below. Salvation begun is not salvation finished. The work must be carried on to the end, by our own diligent, careful labour, with unfaltering purpose and unremitting zeal. An exaltation to Christ’s right hand is given only to those possessing his unselfish spirit.
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