Athlete

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →