Bible verses about "running" | Mace

²⁴ You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain. ²⁵ every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air. ²⁷ but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

¹² happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

⁷ I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:

¹ Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:

¹² for I am not yet secure of the prize, I have not yet finish'd my course: but I press to obtain the reward, which Jesus Christ invited me to. ¹³ I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view, ¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

⁷ You set out well in your course: who hath obstructed your progress in the truth?

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air.

¹³ but he that shall persevere unto the end, shall be preserved.

¹ Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us: ² having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.

³ and not only so, but we triumph in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, probation; ⁴ and probation, hope:

²⁴ You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.