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To work out ones salvation is pretty easy to understand. To endure to the end and thus be saved seems pretty clear and reflects Paul's comments at Heb. 10:36 and elsewhere that salvation could be gained and lost.

Did he say to work TO BE SAVED?No He did not..this letter was written to the saved.. it was instruction on HOW TO WALK out their salvation not how to be saved

What did Paul tell them about their walk?

Phl 2:12 ¶ 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.
Phl 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

Scripture interprets itself with its constancy

Hbr 13:20 ¶ Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Hbr 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever.

2Cr 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

It is God that works in us to do HIS will ...and that is the reassurance that Paul was giving the saved church.. we humans may be fearful and tremble if we are left to ourselves..but fear not as it is God that works His will in you

It is so sad that Cathoics look at the word of God as a paste and copy job instead of reading what it really says

I think you meant Heb 10:26 not 36

Now really read this in the context of the message to the Hebrews

Hbr 10:26 ¶ For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

This is a passage that Catholics really need to rake to heart..

It is a warning to members of the church, not become apostate and try to return to the jewish practices because the last sacrifice for sin, the one that FULFILLED the type was Jesus Christ.. there could be no more temple sacrifices for their sin as the final sacrifice had been offered..

Please remember that as one view "the sacrifice of the mass"

There are no more sacrifices that are pleasing to God

[count-your-change]

In Phil. 2:12 Paul use the word “katergazomai”, meaning to act, to fashion, work out to accomplish something. As Thayer’s Lexicon describes the use of the word,
“to do that from which something results”, “make every effort to obtain salvation”, “bring about, result in”.

“Did he say to work TO BE SAVED?No He did not..this letter was written to the saved.. it was instruction on HOW TO WALK out their salvation not how to be saved”

This tortured grammar is simply at variance with Paul's statement that salvation was something to be worked out, a result of faithful endurance in agreement with Christ's own statement about the necessity of endurance to the end to gain salvation.

“I think you meant Heb 10:26 not 36”

No, I meant just what I wrote.

“This is a passage that Catholics really need to rake to heart”

No doubt, but that is a matter for Catholics.