²⁴Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

²⁶I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

²And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

¹⁶Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

¹Wherefore 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,

⁹God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

³²If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

⁷I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

⁷Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

¹⁴I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

⁹For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.