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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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.
26) I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
27) but I beat my body and bring it into submission, for fear that by any means, that after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
1 Peter 3:13-18
13) Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
14) But even if you should suffer for righteousness‘ sake, you are blessed. "Don‘t fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
15) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
16) having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
17) For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
18) Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
Isaiah 59:19
19) So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
2 Peter 2:9
9) the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment;
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