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1 Corinthians 9:24
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
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Hebrews 12:1
Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Library

Called to Reach a Higher Standard
... the prize?" However eagerly and earnestly the runners might strive ... The apostle compared
himself to a man running in a ... morn, when all the sleeping saints are to ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 30 called to reach.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... Christ, [1585]279; only made manifest now to the Saints, [1586]280 ... Heaven, compared
to palaces, [1645]351; orphans shine in, [1646]ib.; not ... Horse race, [1696]206 ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

The Heavenly Footman; Or, a Description of the Man that Gets to ...
... of heaven, our anticipations are feeble indeed, compared with eternal ... to set before
the eyes of the saints of the ... how many such runners will there be found at ...
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Interpretation of Holy Scripture. --Inspired Interpretation. --The ...
... so that one part may always be safely compared with any ... was hapax"once for
all,"delivered to the Saints. ... Like runners in a certain ancient race of which we ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/sermon v interpretation of holy.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... I, if I were one of this race, my soul ... CHRIST; this is the foundation of all saints'
communion, and ... seemed to fail.' In fact, while he compared himself with ...
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