Athlete

And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

but refuse profane and old wives’ fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

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

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

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

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should 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 our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:

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

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church 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 →

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

And 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 →