1 Corinthians 9:26

American Standard Version (1901)

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

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  • Phil 1:21 : 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places] .
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

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    22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

    24Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

    25And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

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    27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • 2 Tim 2:3-6
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    3Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

    4No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

    5And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

    6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

  • 2 Tim 4:7-8
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    7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

    8henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

  • Phil 3:11-14
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    11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

    12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

    13Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

    14I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

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    29whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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    12Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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    1Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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,

  • 2 Cor 10:2-4
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    2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

    4(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

  • Eph 6:12-13
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    12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places] .

    13Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

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    58Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

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    31I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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    8for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

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    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

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    13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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    13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

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    16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

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    12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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    18This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

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    22But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

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    17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: