Joshua 24:31Amplified Bible - Classic EditionIsrael served the Lord all the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the works the Lord had done for Israel. See the chapter |
Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).