²⁶ I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

¹² For this 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 to him against that day.

²⁹ for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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

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

⁵ Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and 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 tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

⁹ So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

²⁴ "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

¹² From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

¹ I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.