2 Timothy 2:5
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:24–26 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
- Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
- 2 Timothy 4:7–8 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.