Running

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;

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 →

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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;

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

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

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 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;

And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

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;

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

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

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.

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

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 →

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 all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — 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;

Jesus having seen that a multitude doth run together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, `Spirit--dumb and deaf--I charge thee, come forth out of him, and no more thou mayest enter into him;'

And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

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,

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

and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

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,

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--

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done--to stand.

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;

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

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us--

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency <FI>is<Fi> of God,

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? — read the full passage →

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

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

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

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.

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. — 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.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →