1COR.9:24-25-26-27.
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that you may obtain.
And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible crown;
but we an incorruptible.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a 'castaway'.
COL. 1:19-20-21-22-23-24
For it pleased The Father that in Him should all fullness dwell;
And having made peace through The Blood of His Cross, by Him to reconcile
all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now has He reconciled
In the Body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable
in His sight:
IF you 'continue' in the Faith' grounded and settled, and be 'not moved away' from the
Hope of the Gospel, which you have heard and which was preached to every creature which
is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that you may obtain.
And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible crown;
but we an incorruptible.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a 'castaway'.
COL. 1:19-20-21-22-23-24
For it pleased The Father that in Him should all fullness dwell;
And having made peace through The Blood of His Cross, by Him to reconcile
all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now has He reconciled
In the Body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable
in His sight:
IF you 'continue' in the Faith' grounded and settled, and be 'not moved away' from the
Hope of the Gospel, which you have heard and which was preached to every creature which
is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Some here actually read the entire bible.