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T Do Everything Shining as Lights Lights in the Shining as Lights Shine Brightly Light Bearers Rejoicing Together Believers Shine
Without in the World World in the World for Christ Like Lights in the
Grumbling World

12 Therefore, my Therefore, my So then, my dear So then, dear Dear friends, you Therefore, my What I’m getting My beloved ones,
dear friends, as beloved, just as friends, just as friends, as you always followed beloved, as you at, friends, is that just like you’ve
you have always you have always you have always always obeyed my instructions have always you should simply always listened to
obeyed—not only obeyed me, not obeyed, not only me when I was when I was with obeyed, not as in keep on doing everything I’ve
in my presence, only in my in my presence with you, it is you. And now my presence what you’ve done taught you in the
but now much presence, but but even more in even more that I am away, it only, but now from the past, I’m asking
more in my much more now my absence, important that is even more much more in beginning. When I you now to keep
absence— in my absence, continue you obey me important. Work my absence, was living among following my
continue to work work out your working out your now while I am hard to show the work out your you, you lived in instructions as
out your own salvation salvation with away from you. results of your own salvation responsive though I were right
salvation with with fear and awe and Keep on working salvation, with fear and obedience. Now there with you.
fear and trembling; reverence, with fear and obeying God trembling; that I’m separated Now you must
trembling, trembling to with deep from you, keep it continue to make
complete your reverence and up. Better yet, this new life fully
salvation, fear. redouble your manifested as you
efforts. Be live in the holy awe
energetic in your of God—which
life of salvation, brings you
reverent and trembling into his
sensitive before presence.
God. That energy
13 for it is God who for it is God who for the one because God is For God is for it is God who God will
is God’s energy, an
works in you to is at work in you, bringing forth in always at work in working in you, works in you continually
energy deep
will and to act in enabling you you both the you to make you giving you the both to will and revitalize you,
within you, God
order to fulfill his both to will and desire and the willing and able desire and the to do for His implanting within
himself willing and
good purpose. to work for his effort—for the to obey his own power to do good pleasure. you the passion to
working at what
good pleasure. sake of his good purpose. what pleases do what pleases
will give him the
pleasure—is God. him. him.
most pleasure.