2 John 1:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Jesus replied, "Take care that no one misleads you;

So Jesus began: "Take care that no one misleads you: ??6 many will come in my name saying, 'I am he,' and mislead many.

He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

I am coming very soon: hold to what you have, in case your crown is taken from you.

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

I am coming very soon: hold to what you have, in case your crown is taken from you.

The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.

Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.

saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.'