Galatians 5:7

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.

¹Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

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,

²¹yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

²²Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

¹⁶But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

⁹Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

⁵throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

⁸but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

¹⁷But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.