But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

When daylight came, they tried in vain to recognise the coast. But an inlet with a sandy beach attracted their attention, and now their object was, if possible, to run the ship aground in this inlet.

For the words are the language of promise and run thus, "About this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.

That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,

I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.