Then he said, Take heed that ye be not deluded: for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the period approaches: go not therefore after them.

carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled;

Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

That we lose

have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

Nevertheless, so far as we have advanced, be it our care to walk by the same rule, to mind the same thing.

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

That we receive

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but every one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

And last of all he was seen also by me, who am but as an abortion.

General references

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.