Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.
Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward.
I am coming very soon: hold to what you have, in case your crown is taken from you.
If the structure raised by any man survives, he will be rewarded;
Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.
see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;
Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.
Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?
The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.
Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!
He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' — do not go after them.
Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,
Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.
Now take care! I am telling you of it all beforehand.
Jesus replied, "Take care that no one misleads you;
and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.
To him he said, 'And you are set over five towns.'