Ver. 13. your safety, and for your holiness. +For God it is who is effecting+ (_energos_) +in you+, in your very being, in "the first springs of thought and will," +both your+ (_to_) +willing and your effecting+, your carrying out the willing, +for His+ (_tes_) +good pleasure's sake+; in order to the accomplishment through you of all His holy purposes. Here, in this wonderful immanence, this divine indwelling, and in its living, operative power, you will find reason enough alike for the "fear and trembling" of deepest reverence, and for the calm resourceful confidence of those who can, if need be, "walk alone," as regards dependence upon even an apostolic friend beside them. Live then as those who carry about with them the very life and power of God in Christ. And what will that life be? A life of spiritual ostentation? Nay, the beautiful and Ver. 14. gentle opposite to it. +Do all things without+, apart from (_choris_), in a definite isolation from, +murmurings and disputes+, thoughts and utterances of discontent and self-assertion towards one another, grudgings of others' claims, and contentions for your Ver. 15. own; +so that you may become+ (_genesthe_), what in full realization you scarcely yet are, +unblamable and simple+ (_akeraioi_, "unadulterated"), single-hearted, because self-forgetting; +God's children+ (_tekna_), shewing what they are by the unmistakable _family-likeness_ of holy love; +blameless+ as such, true to your character; +in the midst of a race+ (_geneas_) +crooked and distorted+, the members of a world whose will always crosses the will of God who is Love; +among whom you are appearing+, like stars which come out in the gloom, +as luminaries+ (_phosteres_), light-bearers, kindled by the Lord of Light, +in the world+; in which you dwell; not of it, but in it, walking up and down "before the sons of men" (Ps. xxxi. 19), that they may see, and seek, Ver. 16. your blessed Secret; +holding out+ (_epechontes_[3]), as those who offer a boon for acceptance, +the word of life+, the Gospel, with its secret of eternal life in Christ; at once telling and commending His message; +to afford me+, even me (_emoi_), +exultation, in view of+ (_eis_) +Christ's Day+, in anticipation of what I shall feel then; +because not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I toil+.[4] But let me not speak of "toil" as if I sighed over a hard lot, or wished to suffer less on your behalf. Ver. 17. +Nay, even if I am being poured out as a drink-offering+ (_spendomai_) +on the sacrifice and ritual+ (_leitourgia_) +of your faith+--on you, so to speak, as you in faith offer yourselves a living sacrifice to God[5]--+I rejoice, and I congratulate+ (_sugchairo_) +you all+, on your faith and holiness, for which it was well worth my while to die as your helper and example. +And in+ Ver. 18. +the same way+ (_to de auto_) +do you too rejoice, and congratulate me+,[6] as true partners with me in the martyr-spirit and its joys.