Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,