1 Corinthians 9:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

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  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.
  • 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
  • 2 Pet 1:6 : 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
  • Gal 5:23 : 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
  • Eph 6:12-18 : 12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places; 13 because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand. 14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, 15 and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace; 16 above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench, 17 and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God, 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
  • 1 Pet 5:4 : 4 and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
  • 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.
  • Heb 12:4 : 4 Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;
  • Titus 1:8 : 8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
  • Rev 4:4 : 4 And around the throne `are' thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;
  • Rev 4:10 : 10 fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

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