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.

¹⁶ Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

⁷ Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁵ If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

¹² Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.