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3 Take your share of hardships like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
4 No soldier ever allows himself to be involved in the business affairs of life, so that he may please the officer who enlisted him.
5 No contestant in the games is crowned, unless he competes according to the rules.
6 The toiling farmer ought to be the first to share the crop.
7 Keep on thinking about what I am saying, for the Lord will grant you understanding of it in all its phases.
8 Continue to remember Jesus Christ as risen from the dead, and descended from David, in accordance with the good news that I preach,
9 for the sake of which I am suffering hardships even to the extent of wearing chains as though I were a criminal. But God's message is not in chains.
10 For this reason I am bearing anything for the sake of His chosen people, so that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.