3
Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer.
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And in the case of an athlete, no one is crowned without competing according to the rules.
6
It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
