Running 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;

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!

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

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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--

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

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;

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!

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;

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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,

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;

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

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

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,

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

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

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 →

`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.

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;

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

By faith Enoch was translated--not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to--that he had pleased God well,

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. — 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;

Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

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

so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

`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 →

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

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

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;'

`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.'

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

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

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

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

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,

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One--he endured;

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

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,

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;

Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

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

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.'

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

Of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty.

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.

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

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways,

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, — read the full passage →

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

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

`And, whatever it be, <FI>said he,<Fi> let me run.' And he saith to him, `Run;' and Ahimaaz runneth the way of the circuit, and passeth by the Cushite.

And Moses goeth and turneth back unto Jethro his father-in-law, and saith to him, `Let me go, I pray thee, and I turn back unto my brethren who <FI>are<Fi> in Egypt, and I see whether they are yet alive.' And Jethro saith to Moses, `Go in peace.' — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight--