Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

That we lose

Have you gone through so much, all for nothing???f it really is for nothing!

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

Only we must live up to what we have already attained.

But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

That we receive

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

The planter and the waterer are all one, though each of us will be paid for his own work.

and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time.

General references

and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!'