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.

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,

²⁶ I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

¹⁶ holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

² I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

⁸ From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

⁷ You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

⁵ If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

¹⁸ Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

¹⁰ I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

⁵ Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, Like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.