2 John 1:8
lLook to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have 2wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
βλέπετε ἑαυτούς, ἵνα μὴ ἀπολέσωμεν ἃ εἰργασάμεθα, ἀλλὰ μισθὸν πλήρη ἀπολάβωμεν.
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Mark 13:9 ¶But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
Galatians 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
1 Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck;
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Philippians 2:16 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.
Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Psalms 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
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Or, gained. Some copies read, which ye have gained, but that ye receive.
Such changes of the person, as we here find, are neither unusual, nor, in exhortation, inelegant; but some copies read in the two latter clauses
He presses to constancy in the true, incorrupt Christian profession.
that the expected recompence be not lost in the whole, or in any part, as Gal 3:3,4.