1 Corinthians 9:26 Cross References - Living_Oracles

²⁶ I, therefore, so run, as not out of view. So I fight, not as beating the air:

¹² From the first appearing of John the Immerser until now, the kingdom of heaven is invaded, and invaders take possession by force.

¹ The seniors who are among you, I exhort, who am also a senior, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory which is to be revealed.

²⁴ Force your entrance through the straight gate; for many, I assure you, will request to be admitted, who shall not prevail.

⁹ So, also, you, unless with the tongue you give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? Therefore, you will be speaking to the air.

¹ For we know that if the earthy house of this our tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.

⁸ We are courageous, indeed, and desirous rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

¹² For we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with governments, with powers, with the rulers of this darkness: with spiritual wickedness in the heavenly regions.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²⁹ For which I also labor, combating vigorously, according to the effectual working of him who works effectually in me with power.

¹² for which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve what I have committed in trust to him, till that day.

⁵ And also if one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend according to the laws.

¹ Wherefore, let us be afraid, lest a promise of entrance into the rest, being left, any of you should seem to fall short of it.

¹⁰ Wherefore, the rather, brethren, earnestly endeavor to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, you shall never fall;