1 Corinthians 9:26

King James Version 1611 (Original)

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth 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 also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to 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 the violent take it by force.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

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