aPhil. 3:14; Col. 2:18
bGal. 2:2; 5:7; Phil. 2:16; Heb. 12:1; [2 Tim. 4:7]
c1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 2:5; 4:7; [Jude 3]
dSee James 1:12
e[Heb. 12:4]
f[ch. 14:9]
g[Acts 5:20]
hSee 1 Cor. 1:8
iSee 2 Cor. 1:14
jGal. 2:2; 1 Thess. 3:5; [Gal. 4:11]
kSee Eph. 4:22
lSee 1 Cor. 9:24
mSee ch. 10:36
nch. 6:18

1 Corinthians 9:24-26

24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives athe prize? So brun that you may obtain it. 25Every cathlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we dan imperishable. 26So I do not run aimlessly; I edo not box as one fbeating the air.

Philippians 2:16

16holding fast to gthe word of life, so that in hthe day of Christ iI may be proud that jI did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Hebrews 12:1

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and ksin which clings so closely, and llet us run mwith endurance the race that is nset before us,
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