Run The Race

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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; — read the full passage →

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;

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

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

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

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.

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

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

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?

Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

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

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

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 he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again; — read the full passage →

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

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; — read the full passage →

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, — read the full passage →

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

Not yet unto blood did ye resist--with the sin striving;

who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth--

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

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

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age--Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding. — read the full passage →

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

for in this were the elders testified of;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety, — read the full passage →

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

For--with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, <FI>In which<Fi> thou art confident--And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift <FI>is<Fi> the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.

He who is overcoming--this one--shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — 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;

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

and to a mediator of a new covenant--Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, — read the full passage →

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; — read the full passage →

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,