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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    22 To 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.

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

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

    25 And 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.

  • 27 but 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
    4 verses
    78%

    3 Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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

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

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

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

    8 henceforth 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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    11 if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

    12 Not 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.

    13 Brethren, 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,

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

  • 16 holding 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.

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

  • 12 Fight 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.

  • 1 Therefore 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
    3 verses
    70%

    2 yea, 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.

    3 For 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
    2 verses
    69%

    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] .

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

  • 15 But 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.

  • 58 Wherefore, 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.

  • 68%

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

    32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

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

  • 8 for 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.

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    14 Of 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.

    15 Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

  • 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

  • 24 But 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.

  • 6 Now 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.

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

  • 8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

  • 9 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

  • 5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

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

  • 20 yea, 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;

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

  • 9 as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 16 so 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.

  • 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

  • 12 All 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.

  • 18 This 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;

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

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