8 See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;
Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.
Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it', a wage he shall receive;
`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
And Jesus answering them, began to say, `Take heed lest any one may lead you astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am `he', and many they shall lead astray;