Running the Race
10 passages
- Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
Read it in context - Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Read it in context - Philippians 3:13–14
13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Read it in context - Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Read it in context - Galatians 5:7
You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 9:26
Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
Read it in context - Acts 20:24
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Read it in context - Matthew 24:13
But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Read it in context - Hebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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