Hebrews 12:1
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The Race of Faith
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, (A)let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and (B)let us run (C)with endurance the race that is set before us,
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2 Timothy 4:7
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7 (A)I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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Striving for a Crown
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? (A)Run in such a way that you may [a]obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize [b]is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for (B)an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: (C)not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 (D)But I discipline my body and (E)bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become (F)disqualified.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:24 win
- 1 Corinthians 9:25 exercises self-control
Philippians 2:16
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16 holding fast the word of life, so that (A)I may rejoice in the day of Christ that (B)I have not run in vain or labored in (C)vain.
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Luke 21:34
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The Importance of Watching(A)
34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
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- Luke 21:34 dissipation
Hebrews 10:35-39
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35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, (A)which has great reward. 36 (B)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, (C)you may receive the promise:
37 “For (D)yet a little while,
And (E)He[a] who is coming will come and will not [b]tarry.
38 Now (F)the[c] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those (G)who draw back to [d]perdition, but of those who (H)believe to the saving of the soul.
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- Hebrews 10:37 Or that which
- Hebrews 10:37 delay
- Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
- Hebrews 10:39 destruction
Philippians 3:10-14
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10 that I may know Him and the (A)power of His resurrection, and (B)the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may (C)attain[a] to the resurrection from the dead.
Pressing Toward the Goal
12 Not that I have already (D)attained,[b] or am already (E)perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [c]apprehended; but one thing I do, (F)forgetting those things which are behind and (G)reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 (H)I press toward the goal for the prize of (I)the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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- Philippians 3:11 Lit. arrive at
- Philippians 3:12 obtained it
- Philippians 3:13 laid hold of it
Galatians 5:7
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1 Peter 2:1
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Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood
2 Therefore, (A)laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
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Colossians 3:5-8
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5 (A)Therefore put to death (B)your members which are on the earth: (C)fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (D)which is idolatry. 6 (E)Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon (F)the sons of disobedience, 7 (G)in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 (H)But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
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Romans 12:12
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12 (A)rejoicing in hope, (B)patient[a] in tribulation, (C)continuing steadfastly in prayer;
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- Romans 12:12 persevering
Ephesians 4:22-24
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22 that you (A)put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and (B)be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you (C)put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
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Romans 13:11-14
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Put on Christ
11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time (A)to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. (B)Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and (C)let us put on the armor of light. 13 (D)Let us walk [a]properly, as in the day, (E)not in revelry and drunkenness, (F)not in lewdness and lust, (G)not in strife and envy. 14 But (H)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and (I)make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
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- Romans 13:13 decently
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