1 Corinthians 9:24

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²³ And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them. ²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain. ²⁵ But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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Galatians 2:2

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

Hebrews 12:1

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

Philippians 3:14

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:7

Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

Psalm 19:5

And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Jeremiah 12:5

If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?

Hosea 12:10

And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.

1 Corinthians 9:26

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

Revelation 3:11

I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, that no one take thy crown.