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3 Share hardships with me, as a true soldier of Christ Jesus.
4 A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.
5 No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.
6 The labourer who does the work should be the first to receive a share of the fruits of the earth.
7 Reflect upon what I say; the Lord will always help you to understand.
8 Keep before your mind Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as told in the Good News entrusted to me;
9 in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the Message of God is not fettered;
10 and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God's People, that they also may obtain the Salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory.