1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
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1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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, so that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25
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.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
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Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
2 Timothy 3:8
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
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Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:20
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
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Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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 its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
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Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
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Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
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2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, 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.
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
1 Peter 5:1
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
Revelation 2:10
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.
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Philippians 3:11
if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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