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

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.

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

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

“ But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.They are illustrations of this true proverb:“ A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“ A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”