Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
Matthew 10:37-38
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
Luke 8:14-15
And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.
Luke 14:26-33
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
Romans 13:11-14
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
Galatians 5:7
You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
Ephesians 4:22-24
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
Philippians 3:10-14
That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
Colossians 3:5-8
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
Hebrews 10:35-39
So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
1 John 2:15-16
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.
Matthew 24:13
But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
Luke 9:59-62
And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Luke 16:28
For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
Luke 18:22-25
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
John 3:32
He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.
John 4:39
Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.
John 4:44
For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Romans 8:24-25
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
2 Timothy 2:4
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
Hebrews 6:15
And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
Hebrews 11:2-38
For by it our fathers had God's approval.
James 1:3
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
James 5:7-11
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
1 Peter 4:2
So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.
1 Peter 5:12
I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.
2 Peter 1:6
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
Revelation 13:10
If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 22:16
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star.
Psalm 18:23
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
Isaiah 60:8
Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?
Ezekiel 38:9
And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.
Ezekiel 38:16
And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.