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Afflicted saints » Should imitate Christ
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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God. For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps, who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,
Athletics » The Christian life compared to a foot-race » Stripping for the contest
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,
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Attitudes of the Christian » Seven attitudes of the spiritual life » Running, for progress
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,
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Christian race » The Christian life compared to a foot-race » Stripping for the contest
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,
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Christianity » Characteristics of » 13 a race
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,
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of multitudes of persons
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,
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Christian conduct » Putting away all sin
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,
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Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.
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Endurance » Finishing the course
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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God. For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.
But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
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I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.
Endurance » Jesus Christ enduring the cross
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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
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,
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BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
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that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,
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in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,
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Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
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holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
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I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.
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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,
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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
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Games » Foot races
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.
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holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
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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,
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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
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Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Weights, as well as sins, impede progress
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,
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Patience » Being patient
And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.
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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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God. For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.
Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain. Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another, be not slothful in business, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord, rejoice in the hope, be patient in affliction, be persevering in prayer,
For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise. For yet a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay;
Patience » To be exercised in » Running the race set before us
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,
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Perseverance » In persevering to the end
Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
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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,
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As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; continue in my love.
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And the congregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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I come quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown.
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Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
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But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned,
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Race » Foot race » Figurative
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
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holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
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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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.
Repentance » What it is
So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.
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for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God,
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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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal. But lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither a moth nor corrosion destroys, and where thieves dig not through nor steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,
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employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
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Righteous » Compared with » Runners in a race
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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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,
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The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Foot races
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
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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, looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.
that I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ. 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, read more.
I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.
I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.
compared to Saints » Runners in a race
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
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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,
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Seven » Seven attitudes of the spiritual life » Running, for progress
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,
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Sin » Excuses offered for » To be forsaken
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,
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BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
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that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,
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in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,
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Sin » Described as » Besetting
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,
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Sin » Specially strive against besetting
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,
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Sin » The entangling
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,
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Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In persevering to the end
Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
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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,
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As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; continue in my love.
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And the congregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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I come quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown.
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Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
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But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned,
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Transgression » Sin, definition of » To be forsaken
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,
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BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
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that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,
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in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
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,
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