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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.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. — read the full passage →

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape. — read the full passage →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’” — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes. — read the full passage →

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. — read the full passage →