And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

for the all things [are] because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

'But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;