²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

⁵ And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

²⁹ Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

²⁴ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

5 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

4 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.