^{6 Ref} The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

^{7 Ref} Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

^{8 Ref} Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:

^{9 Ref} wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

^{10 Ref} Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

^{11 Ref} Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

^{12 Ref} if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

^{13 Ref} if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

^{14 Ref} Of these things put them in remembrance, charging `them' in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

^{15 Ref} Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

^{16 Ref} But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

^{17 Ref} and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

^{18 Ref} men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.