²³ Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

¹⁰ Therefore ^(A)I endure all things for the sake of the ^[a]elect, ^(B)that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

³⁵ For ^(A)whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

²⁵ And everyone who competes for the prize ^[a]is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for ^(A)an imperishable crown. ²⁶ Therefore I run thus: ^(B)not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. ^27 (C)But I discipline my body and ^(D)bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become ^(E)disqualified.

³ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is ^(A)with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Shepherd the Flock

5 The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a ^(A)witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the ^(B)glory that will be revealed:

The Son Was Faithful

3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

⁶ The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

⁵ to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that ^(A)the truth of the gospel might continue with you.