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.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. — read the full passage →

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

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

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.

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

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.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

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.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. — 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 →

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; — read the full passage →

Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, — read the full passage →

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.