⁸ Watch out that you do not lose what we^[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.^(A)

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence;^(A) it will be richly rewarded.

¹⁴ If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.^(A)

⁸ The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.^(A)

⁹ “You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues.^(A) On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

¹⁵ See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God^(A) and that no bitter root^(B) grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

⁴ Have you experienced^[a] so much in vain—if it really was in vain?

³⁶ Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests^(A) a crop for eternal life,^(B) so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless^(A) and pure, “children of God^(B) without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”^[a](C) Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ^(D) that I did not run^(E) or labor in vain.^(F)