Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

For if that which fades away came through glory, how much more does that which is permanent have glory?

not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

Then, when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the victor's crown of glory that will never fade away.

On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.

And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.