13 I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.

13 For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

13 Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do–forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,14 with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

24 Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.26 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,27 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

1 Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,2 simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself – where He still sits– at the right hand of the throne of God.3 Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.

23 Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.

13 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations; baptize them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;20 and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age.«

29 »Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.«30 For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them.

10 For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you:»If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat.«11 For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.12 To persons of that sort our injunction –and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ– is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.13 But you, brethren, must not grow weary in the path of duty;