1 Corinthians 9:26

World English Bible (2000)

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, 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 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this cause I also suffer 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 to him against that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are courageous, 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's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

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

    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

    24 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

    25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • 2 Tim 2:3-6
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    3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

    4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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    7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

    8 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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

    12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

    13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken 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 for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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    16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • Col 1:29
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    29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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    12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

  • Heb 12:1
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    1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • 2 Cor 10:2-4
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    2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

    3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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

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

    13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

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    9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

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    24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

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    13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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    9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

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    13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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  • Phil 1:16
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

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    9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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    8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

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    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 anything.

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    18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

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    22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

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