And Jesus said: "See that you are not led astray; for many will take my name, and come saying 'I am He,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not follow them.

Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, 'that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,' and so poison the whole community.

I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received, that no one may take your crown.

That we lose

Did you go through so much to no purpose?--if indeed it really was to no purpose!

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received, that no one may take your crown.

That we receive

Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for Immortal Life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

In this the man who plants and the man who waters are one; yet each will receive his own reward in proportion to his own labor.

Last of all, he appeared even to me, who am, as it were, the abortion.

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And say 'Here is a man who began to build and was not able to finish!'