The Epistle of Saint Paul to the Philippians 2:12 says,
"Therefore beloved, even as ye always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much rather in mine absence, be working out your own salvation with fear and trembling;" and in
3:10-14 he also says,
"if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not that I already received, or already have been perfected; but I pursue, if I might also apprehend that for which I also was apprehended by the Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forth to those things which are before. I pursue toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
The First Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 9:27 says
"I fear, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should become unapproved." and in
10:12 he also says
"The one who thinketh he standeth, let him take heed least he should fall."
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