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

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?

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

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.

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?

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.For yet in a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, I have no pleasure in him.But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you— unless you believed for no purpose.

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age,and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.

But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and,“ a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”