Genesis 22:5

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.

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.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

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

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

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 now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ ” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

“Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you, and show you what you are to do.”

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh.

Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.”

Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

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,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

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,