Do 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. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”