8. and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
9. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,
10. that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,
11. and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father's glory.
12. So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
13. for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.
14. Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,
15. that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,
16. holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.