5. And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.
6. The husbandman that laboureth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
7. Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.
8. Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:
9. wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
10. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11. Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:
12. if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:
13. if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
14. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
15. Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
16. But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,