Have you endured such sufferings to no purpose–if indeed it has been to no purpose?
through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it–unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?
Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.