Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
The rewards would be deliverance for him from failure and a wasted life (cf. 1 Timothy 2:15; James 1:21) and the deliverance of those to whom he ministered from error and retrogression. Obviously Paul was not saying God justifies us because we perform our duties faithfully. [Note: Cf. Dillow, pp. 126-27.] 