1 Corinthians 9:26

A Conservative Version

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

Cross References

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

2 Timothy 2:5

And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Colossians 1:29

For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

Luke 13:24

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

2 Timothy 1:12

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

Ephesians 6:12

Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the he

1 Peter 5:1

I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

Hebrews 4:1

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

2 Corinthians 5:8

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Corinthians 14:9

So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking into the air.

Matthew 11:12

And from the days of John the immerser until now the kingdom of the heavens is treated aggressively, and aggressors seize it.

Galatians 2:2

And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.

2 Timothy 4:7

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

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

Judges 3:2

only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least to such as formerly knew nothing of that):