Ecclesiastes 1:5

5 aThe sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens
Or  and returns panting
to the place where it rises.

1 Corinthians 9:24-26

24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives cthe prize? So drun that you may obtain it. 25Every eathlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we fan imperishable. 26So I do not run aimlessly; I gdo not box as one hbeating the air.

Philippians 3:13-14

13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: iforgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for jthe prize of the upward kcall of God in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 12:1-2

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 lsin which clings so closely, and mlet us run nwith endurance the race that is oset before us, 2looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, pwho for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising qthe shame, and ris seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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