^4 (A)Have you suffered so ^[a]many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

^8 (A)Look to yourselves, ^(B)that ^[a]we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

³² But ^(A)recall the former days in which, after you were ^[a]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³ partly while you were made ^(B)a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while ^(C)you became companions of those who were so treated; ³⁴ for you had compassion on ^[b]me ^(D)in my chains, and ^(E)joyfully accepted the plundering of your ^[c]goods, knowing that ^(F)you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves ^[d]in heaven. ³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, ^(G)which has great reward. ^36 (H)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^(I)you may receive the promise:

³⁹ But we are not of those ^(M)who draw back to ^[h]perdition, but of those who ^(N)believe to the saving of the soul.

^2 (A)by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless ^(B)you believed in vain.

²⁰ For if, after they ^(A)have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are ^(B)again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. ²¹ For ^(C)it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: ^(D)“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted ^(A)the heavenly gift, and ^(B)have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, ^6 [a]if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, ^(C)since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

²⁴ “But ^(A)when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? ^(B)All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.