1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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. 27But I discipline my body and gkeep it under control, ▼▼Greek I pummel my body and make it a slave
lest after preaching to others iI myself should be jdisqualified. Galatians 5:7
7 kYou were running well. Who hindered you from obeying lthe truth?Philippians 2:16
16holding fast to mthe word of life, so that in nthe day of Christ oI may be proud that pI did not run in vain or labor in vain.Philippians 3:10-14
10 qthat I may know him and rthe power of his resurrection, and smay share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may tattain the resurrection from the dead.Straining Toward the Goal
12Not that I have already uobtained this or vam already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: wforgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for xthe prize of the upward ycall of God in Christ Jesus.2 Timothy 4:7
7 zI have fought the good fight, aaI have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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