3. You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4. No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5. And if a man also competes as an athlete, yet is he not crowned, unless he strives lawfully.
6. The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
7. Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.