Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Look to yourselves - amidst the widespread deception, so many being led astray. So Christ's warning, Matthew 24:4-5; Matthew 24:24.
We lose not ... we receive. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, read, 'that YE lose not, but that YE receive.'
Which we have wrought. So B. 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate, Irenaeus, Lucifer, read, 'which YE have wrought.' "We" being the more difficult reading, is less likely to have been a transcriber's alteration. Look that ye lose not the believing state of "truth and love," which WE (as God's workmen, 2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Timothy 2:15) were the instruments of working in you.
A full reward - of grace, not debt: consummated glory. If 'which YE have wrought' be read, the reward is that of their "work (of faith) and labour of love." There are degrees of heavenly reward proportioned to the capability of receiving heavenly blessedness. Each vessel of glory hanging on Jesus shall be full. But the larger the vessel, the greater will be its capacity for heavenly bliss (Isaiah 22:24). He who with one pound made ten, received authority over ten cities; he who made five pounds, received five cities: each in proportion to his capacity of rule, and his faithfulness (Luke 19:15-19; 1 Corinthians 15:41). 'There is no half reward. It is either lost altogether or received in full: full communion with God' (Bengel). No service of minister or people shall fail of its reward.