Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Ver. 8. That we lose not, &c.] The godly, when they fall into foul courses, or grow remiss and leave their first love, may lose what they have wrought, 1. In respect of the praise of men; 2. In respect of their own former feelings of God's favour; 3. In respect of the fulness of their reward in heaven. The Nazarite that broke his vow was to begin all anew, Numbers 6:2,12 .