2 Timothy 2:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

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  • 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run, not with uncertainty; thus I fight, not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  • 1 Pet 5:4 : 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you shall receive a crown of glory that does not fade away.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which you will suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man takes your crown.
  • Rev 4:10 : 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:
  • Col 1:29 : 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith: 8 Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day; and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing.
  • Heb 2:7 : 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands:
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.
  • Heb 12:4 : 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, striving against sin.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Strive to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

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    24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

    25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable.

    26 Therefore I run, not with uncertainty; thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.

    27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

  • 6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

  • 2 Tim 2:3-4
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    3 Therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

    4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

    15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

  • 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

  • 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

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

    8 Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day; and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing.

  • 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

  • 7 To those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

  • 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

  • 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

  • 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  • 14 If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

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    11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.

    12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

  • Gal 6:8-9
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    8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

    9 And let us not grow weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

  • 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.

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

  • 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.

  • 8 But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully;

  • 5 But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • 9 Therefore we strive, that whether present or absent, we may be pleasing to him.

  • 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4 But let every man examine his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

  • 18 For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. And, The laborer is worthy of his wages.

  • 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

  • 20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

  • 3 If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness;

  • 6 And what man is he who has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

  • 3 Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

  • 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's matters.

  • 5 For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

  • 5 Which is a clear sign of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:

  • 10 Therefore, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

  • 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

  • 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, striving against sin.

  • 5 But be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

  • 19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

  • 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

  • 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you shall receive a crown of glory that does not fade away.

  • 7 Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

  • 18 If men contend with each other, and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,