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Philippians 2:12-13
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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My short answer dealing with working out your own salvation is that the righteous are troubled by their our own condition, while at the same time rightfully confident towards God our savior. We fear offending our Lord, a holy fear, prompted by reverence. Thus apart from repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ none shall be saved. We love Him, because He first loved us (1 John 4:10, 19; John 14:15). The working out of our salvation is shown in Romans chapter seven.

1 John 4:10, 19
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
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John 14:15
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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A longer answer follows...

Salvation is of the Lord. When we are saved, we are a new creation, whereby it is said old things are passed away, all things are become new. Salvation is sure, the righteous having life everlasting, for whosoever believeth in Christ Jesus, those having eternal life shall not come into condemnation but have passed from death unto life (John 5:24).

John 5:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
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2 Cor 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Ephesians 2:10
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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John 3:15-16
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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We are not justified by the law, but our desire is toward the law. 

Rom 3:20, 28
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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The law condemns us, after the flesh, and those that are of the flesh cannot please God, but there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. This reverence for the things of God does not earn salvation, and does not keep us saved. Thinking to gain merit after the flesh is not of God. Knowing the end of those that do not fear the Lord, the end of the wicked, the righteous are instead given remembrance of God's benefits. Remembering God has to do with remembering His ways, His benefits towards us, and does not mean that we would forget God as if any thought of God were erased from our mind. Even the wicked retain thoughts of God in their mind, but only the righteous are concerned with His benefits. And those benefits are what the righteous sometimes forget. 

Ps 73:3, 17, 23-24, 26-27
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
KJB

So it is said work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for we our troubled by our own condition, while at the same time rightfully confident towards God our savior. We fear offending our Lord, a holy fear, prompted by reverence. Thus apart from repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ none shall be saved. We love Him, because He first loved us (1 John 4:10, 19; John 14:15). The working out of our salvation is shown in Romans chapter seven.

The prayer of the righteous is that they be not drawn together with the wicked (Psalms 26:9), and so it is written many times that we are to come out from among them, to be separate, a peculiar people. The wicked do not have reverential fear towards God (Ex 9:30).

Exodus 9:30
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.
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Ps 73:4-6
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
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The righteous are said to be crucified with Christ (Gal 2:20)... 

Galatians 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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and are to reckon ourselves dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God (Phil 2:13; Rom 6:10-18; 7:8-9, 13-15, 22-25). 

Philippians 2:13
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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Rom 6:10-18
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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Rom 7:8-9, 13-15, 22-25
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
KJB

Come and hear, all ye that fear God,
and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 66:16

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