Athlete

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; — read the full passage →

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →

And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?' — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →