Looking diligently, lest any one fall from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: Lest there be any fornicator or profane person,

I come quickly. Hold fast what thou hast, that none take thy crown.

That we lose

Have ye suffered so many things in vain?

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.

That ye may be blameless and simple, the sons of God, unrebukable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

But whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

But call ye to mind the former days, in which, after ye were inlightened, ye endured so great a conflict of sufferings:

I come quickly. Hold fast what thou hast, that none take thy crown.

That we receive

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

But he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

Last of all he was seen by me also, as an untimely birth.

General references

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