Toki, mutta toisella tavoin, ei kehoituksena hankkimaan pelastusta lain teoin.
Finally, why should Christians work out their salvation with fear and trembling? Because, as Scripture tells them, their salvation rests not in their hands, but, in God’s. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Phil. 2:12-13). The synergists are in the habit of quoting only the admonition in v. 12 and entirely disregarding v.13, where the reason for the admonition is given. As we saw in the quotation above, they quote only “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” and then assert: “There is no stronger way of stating that the salvation of man does not depend in every respect only on God,” simply closing their eyes to the statement: "It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.’
He who disregards this truth is headed for a fall. There is, in the last analysis, only one thing that causes the loss of faith, and that is self-confidence the synergistic idea that salvation does not depend solely on God’s gracious operation, but also on the “self-determination,” the “correct conduct,” of man.Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, volume II, p. 92-93.