1 Corinthians 9:26

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Therefore 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,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

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

Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

You are witnesses of these things.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

From 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.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

I 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.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

holding 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.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.