²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

¹² For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

²⁹ whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

¹ Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

⁵ And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowded, except he have contended lawfully.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual `hosts' of wickedness in the heavenly `places'.

⁸ we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

⁹ So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

²⁴ Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.

¹ The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: