So He said, "You must take care not to be misled about it! For many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.

That we lose

Have you suffered so much for nothing? If it really is for nothing.

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

However, we must continue to live up to that degree of success that we have already reached.

But you must continue to remember those earlier days when first you received the light and then endured so great a struggle with persecution,

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.

That we receive

Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

The planter and the waterer are one in aim, and yet each of us will get his own pay in accordance with his own work,

He was seen by me, too, as though I were born out of time.

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and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'