Running The Race

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,

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 →

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.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

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.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

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,

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

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.

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

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.

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.

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

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

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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 →

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

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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

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 →

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

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

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

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

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 →

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

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

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

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!”

“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.”

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

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.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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

‘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.

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.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

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

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

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

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;

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.

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

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

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.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

“But come what may,” he said, “I will run.” He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.