Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
Luke 9:62
Jesus answered him, "No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
Philippians 3:12
I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works and of faith in God,
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
Luke 10:42
and yet only one thing is really necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion and she shall not be deprived of it."
Romans 15:23-29
But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay you a visit,
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.
Philippians 1:18-21
What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached--either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
Philippians 2:12
Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.
Philippians 3:8
Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,
Philippians 4:11-13
I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part)
2 Peter 3:8
But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.