John 3:29
He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice; this my joy, therefore, is fully attained.
1 Corinthians 9:24-26
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
Philippians 3:13-14
I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,