1Many sail to the competitions for corruptible crowns, but not all are crowned, only those who labored much and competed nobly.
2Let us strive, therefore, that we may all be crowned.
3Let us run the straight road, the incorruptible race.
4And many of us will sail to it and strive to be crowned.
5And if we cannot all be crowned, let us at least come near to the crown.
6We must know that he who strives in the corruptible race, if he is caught cheating, is beaten and thrown out of the stadium.
7What do you think? What will happen to him who corrupts the race of incorruptibility?
8Concerning those who did not keep the seal of baptism, it says: Their worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.