²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

²⁹ for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

²¹ for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.

¹ We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

⁵ and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

¹² because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

⁸ we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

¹ For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

⁹ so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

¹² `And, from the days of John the Baptist till now, the reign of the heavens doth suffer violence, and violent men do take it by force,

¹ Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,