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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.
Philippians 3:12-14
12) Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
13) Brothers, I don‘t regard myself as yet having laid hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14) I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1-2
1) Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2) looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Matthew 7:7
7) "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
Hebrews 10:35
35) Therefore don‘t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
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