Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it?

你们受苦如此之多，都是徒然的吗？难道果真是徒然的吗？

你们受这么多的苦都是徒然的吗？如果真是徒然的，

你们受这么多的苦都是徒然的吗？如果真是徒然的，

你们受了许多苦，难道都是徒然的吗？都白受了吗？

你们受了这么多的苦，都是白受的吗？恐怕真是白受的了。

你们受了这么多的苦，都没有意义吗？会不会真的没有意义呢！

你們受苦如此之多，都是徒然的嗎？難道果真是徒然的嗎？

你們受這麼多的苦都是徒然的嗎？如果真是徒然的，

你們受這麼多的苦都是徒然的嗎？如果真是徒然的，

你們受了許多苦，難道都是徒然的嗎？都白受了嗎？

你們受了這麼多的苦，都是白受的嗎？恐怕真是白受的了。

你們受苦這麼多，都是徒然的麼？——如果真是徒然的話，

你們受了這麼多的苦，都沒有意義嗎？會不會真的沒有意義呢！

爾徒受若許之苦乎、果徒然乎、

爾為斯道、亦既受多苦矣、今若此、不徒然乎、其可徒然歟、

爾徒受如此之多苦乎、豈果徒然乎、

果爾、則爾向之所受一切痛苦艱難、亦有何益、將非盡付東流乎？

Have you experienced so much in vain— if it really was in vain?

Have you experienced so much for nothing? And was it really for nothing?

Did you suffer so many things in vain— if indeed it was in vain?

Did you experience so much for nothing— if in fact it was for nothing?

Did you suffer so many things in vain— if indeed it was in vain?

Have you suffered so many things in vain— if indeed it was in vain?

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

Did you suffer so much for nothing— if in fact it was for nothing?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if[ it be] yet in vain.

Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering.Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.“ For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.

It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you— unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.

For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were once enlightened— those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit,who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come—and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.

However, if righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things and act like other sinners, should they be allowed to live? No, of course not! All their righteous acts will be forgotten, and they will die for their sins.

And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before.It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life.They prove the truth of this proverb:“ A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says,“ A washed pig returns to the mud.”