Luke 14:31
"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.
Ephesians 6:10-20
From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.
1 Timothy 6:11-12
But you, as a man of God, must be fleeing always from these things; you must constantly strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.