finish the race

Isaiah Chapter 40:28

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Isaiah Chapter 40:29

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isaiah Chapter 40:30

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isaiah Chapter 40:31

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Acts Chapter 20:24

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

1 Corinthians Chapter 9:24

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

1 Corinthians Chapter 9:25

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians Chapter 9:26

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

1 Corinthians Chapter 9:27

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Galatians Chapter 5:7

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Galatians Chapter 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Philippians Chapter 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Philippians Chapter 3:13

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Philippians Chapter 3:14

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy Chapter 2:5

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

2 Timothy Chapter 4:6

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

2 Timothy Chapter 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

2 Timothy Chapter 4:8

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Hebrews Chapter 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews Chapter 11:2

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Hebrews Chapter 11:3

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Hebrews Chapter 11:4

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Hebrews Chapter 11:5

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Hebrews Chapter 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Hebrews Chapter 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Hebrews Chapter 11:8

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Hebrews Chapter 11:9

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Hebrews Chapter 11:10

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews Chapter 11:11

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews Chapter 11:12

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Hebrews Chapter 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews Chapter 11:14

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Hebrews Chapter 11:15

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Hebrews Chapter 11:16

But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews Chapter 11:17

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

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Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Hebrews Chapter 11:20

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Hebrews Chapter 11:21

By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

Hebrews Chapter 11:22

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

Hebrews Chapter 11:23

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

Hebrews Chapter 11:24

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Hebrews Chapter 11:25

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Hebrews Chapter 11:26

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

Hebrews Chapter 11:27

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews Chapter 11:28

Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

Hebrews Chapter 11:29

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

Hebrews Chapter 11:30

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Hebrews Chapter 11:31

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

Hebrews Chapter 11:32

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

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Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

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Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

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Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

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And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Hebrews Chapter 11:38

Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

Hebrews Chapter 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

Hebrews Chapter 11:40

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Hebrews Chapter 12:1

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hebrews Chapter 12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews Chapter 12:3

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews Chapter 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Hebrews Chapter 12:5

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Hebrews Chapter 12:6

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews Chapter 12:7

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hebrews Chapter 12:8

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Hebrews Chapter 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews Chapter 12:10

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews Chapter 12:11

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Hebrews Chapter 12:12

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Hebrews Chapter 12:13

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Hebrews Chapter 12:14

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Hebrews Chapter 12:15

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Hebrews Chapter 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Hebrews Chapter 12:17

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Hebrews Chapter 12:18

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

Hebrews Chapter 12:19

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

Hebrews Chapter 12:20

For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

Hebrews Chapter 12:21

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

Hebrews Chapter 12:22

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Hebrews Chapter 12:23

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews Chapter 12:24

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Hebrews Chapter 12:25

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Hebrews Chapter 12:26

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Hebrews Chapter 12:27

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Hebrews Chapter 12:28

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Hebrews Chapter 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.