5. Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
6. The farmer who labours must be the first to get a share of the crops.
7. Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
8. Remember Yeshua the Messiah, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,
9. in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
10. Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Messiah Yeshua with eternal glory.