1 Corinthians 9:24

WEB

²⁴Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

KJV

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

BSB

²⁴Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

FBV

²⁴Wouldn't you agree that there are many runners in a race, but only one gets the prize? So run your best, so you may win!

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Extra References

Philippians 3:14

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

¹Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

2 Timothy 4:7-8

⁷I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. ⁸From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Revelation 3:11

¹¹I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Philippians 2:16

¹⁶holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

1 Corinthians 9:26

²⁶I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

Galatians 5:7

⁷You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Jeremiah 12:5

⁵“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

James 1:12

¹²Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Galatians 2:2

²I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.