⁵ Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

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.

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, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

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

¹⁰ Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

⁴ When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

⁹ But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.{TR adds "and set him over the works of your hands"}

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.

²⁹ for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

¹⁵ Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

²⁴ "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.