And if a man also strive for masteries, {yet} is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

For to me to live {is} Christ, and to die {is} gain.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. {believed: or, trusted}

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high {places}. {flesh...: Gr. blood and flesh} {spiritual...: or, wicked spirits} {high: or, heavenly}

For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. {easy...: Gr. significant}

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left {us} of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

We are confident, {I say}, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. {suffereth...: or, is gotten by force, and they that thrust men}

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do {it} with thy might; for {there is} no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left {us} of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. {easy...: Gr. significant}

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. {labour: or, endeavour}

And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. {privately: or, severally}

So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;