⁸ Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we^[a] have worked for but may receive a full reward.^(A)

³⁵ Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward.

¹⁴ If the work that someone has built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a wage.

¹¹ I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one takes away your crown.

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

Persecution Foretold

⁹ “As for yourselves, beware, for they will hand you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.^(A)

¹⁵ See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.^(A)

¹⁵ so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,^{(A) 16} holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.^(B)

³² But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,^(A)

⁴ Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.^(A)