For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.