Running

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.

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 →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — 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 →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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,

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

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.

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 →

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. — read the full passage →

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

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.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

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

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

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness. — read the full passage →

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

‘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.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. — read the full passage →

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →