Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
— Hebrews 12:1Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
— 1 Corinthians 9:24But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means , when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
— 1 Corinthians 9:27And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
— 1 Corinthians 9:25I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
— 1 Corinthians 9:26