Thematic Bible: Foot races

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Verse Concepts

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless. Verse Concepts

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing. Verse Concepts

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us, Verse Concepts

I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air. Verse Concepts

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Verse Concepts

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing. Verse Concepts

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us, our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God.

In the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, read more.
I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

Thematic Bible: Foot races

Thematic Bible

Games » Foot races

The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Foot races

Thematic Bible: Foot races

Thematic Bible

Games » Foot races

The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Foot races

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