Thematic Bible: Foot races
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Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
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Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
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Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, read more.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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