Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and change your minds, and do the first works, otherwise I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you change your minds.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

After

For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ye endured

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

And Saul consented to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest

because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,

For I wish you to know what a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

General references

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.