²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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

12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,

⁷ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

¹¹ Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.