Passage 1 Corinthians 9:24:
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.
Galatians 5:7 (Whole Chapter)
You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?
Philippians 2:16 (Whole Chapter)
Holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may have something of which exultantly to rejoice and glory in that I did not run my race in vain or spend my labor to no purpose.
Hebrews 12
1THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,
2Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.(A)
Mark 9: Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in (into) His kingdom.
Mark 9:7 Then a cloud appeared and eveloped them, and a voice camde from the cloud "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" Suddenly when they looked around they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.
Matthew 16: 6
to the fuck comment:
Mark 7: 18
Are you so dull? Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach then out of his body.
A quote from somebody's Facebook profile I liked:
"God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called."
-Marcia Ware
"We are spiritual beings having temporary physical experiences." -Chris Russell
Psalms 27, 28
Matthew 23:17
counting crows - round here
Passage 1 Kings 22:22:
22And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
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