Bible verses about "goals" | Twentieth_Century

⁹ Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

⁸ Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and for ever!

¹⁵ If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

²⁷ His reply was--"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'"

⁸ Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.

²⁴ Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. ²⁵ Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. ²⁶ I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air. ²⁷ No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.

¹³ I can do everything in the strength of him who makes me strong!

³³ But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you.

¹³ For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, ¹⁴ I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.