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

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.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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 →

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — 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,

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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 →

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 →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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. — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” — read the full passage →

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’” — read the full passage →

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. — read the full passage →

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; — read the full passage →

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” — read the full passage →

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. — read the full passage →

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, — read the full passage →

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. — read the full passage →

After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. — read the full passage →

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.” — read the full passage →

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. — read the full passage →

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ — read the full passage →

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. — read the full passage →

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. — read the full passage →