Mat 13:21, 1Cor 9:24, Heb 12:1 | ESV | STEP | yet he has no root in himself , but endures for a while , and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word , immediately he falls away .

Matthew 13:21

21 yet he has no root in himself, but ^aendures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^bhe falls away. ^{▼▼Or stumbles}

1 Corinthians 9:24

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives ^dthe prize? So ^erun that you may obtain it.

Hebrews 12:1

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and ^fsin which clings so closely, and ^glet us run ^hwith endurance the race that is ⁱset before us,