24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the ^rprize? So ^srun that you may obtain it.

2 I went up because of a ^krevelation and set before them (though privately before ^lthose who seemed influential) ^mthe gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run ⁿin vain.

16 holding fast to the ^aword of life, so that in the day of Christ ^bI may be proud that I did not ^crun ^din vain or labor in vain.

7 I have fought the ^ggood fight, I have ^hfinished the race, I have kept the faith.

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also ^ylay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us ^zrun with ^aendurance the race that is set before us,