Philippians 2:12

Because of Christ's example, believers are to work out their salvation with reverent seriousness. Salvation already given must be lived out diligently.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Pet 1:5–10Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• Luke 13:23–24One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
• John 6:27–29Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Gal 6:7–9Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• Rom 13:11–14Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
• Heb 12:28–29Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
• Prov 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
• Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Ps 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
• Phil 4:1Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
• Ps 2:11Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
• Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 1 Cor 2:3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
• 2 Cor 7:15His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
• Eph 6:5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
• 1 Cor 9:20–27To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
• Isa 66:5Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
• Prov 10:16The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
• Matt 11:12From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
• Ezra 10:3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
• Acts 9:6But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
• Phil 1:5for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
• Phil 2:19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
• 1 Cor 4:14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• Phil 4:15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
• Acts 16:29He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

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