3Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.
4A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
5And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.
6It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
7Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.
8Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:
9In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
