John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bride-groom who stands and hears him greatly rejoices because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy, therefore, has been made full.
1 Corinthians 9:24-26
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;