What does the Bible say about run the race?
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The Bible says believers are to persevere in faith and obedience, pressing toward the goal God has set before them through Christ. Hebrews 12:1-3 calls Christians to lay aside sin, run with endurance, and fix their eyes on Jesus, who endured the cross and now reigns in glory. Paul compares the Christian life to disciplined athletic training in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, urging self-control not to earn salvation, but to serve faithfully. Philippians 3:14 directs us toward the heavenly prize of God’s call in Christ, while 2 Timothy 4:7-8 assures us that those who finish in faith receive the crown the righteous Judge gives by grace.
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- Hebrews 12:1
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,
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
[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.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24
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.
- Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- 2 Timothy 4:7-8
[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.
- Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- Hebrews 12:1-2
[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, [2] looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- 2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
- Hebrews 12:1-3
[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, [2] looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. [3] For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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