⁶ For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until ^(A)the day of Christ Jesus.

¹² So then, my beloved, ^(A)just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your ^(B)salvation with ^(C)fear and trembling; ¹³ for it is ^(D)God who is at work in you, both to will and to work ^(E)for His good pleasure.

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure; ^(A)God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, ^(B)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we had ^[a]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we ^(C)respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to ^(D)the Father of ^[b]spirits, and ^(E)live? ¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, ^(F)so that we may share His holiness. ¹¹ All discipline ^(G)for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the ^(H)peaceful fruit of righteousness.