Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control [in] all things. Now they [compete] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we [compete] [for] an imperishable crown.

But I treat my body roughly, and I bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

So therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, struggling against sin.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [this] to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

to reveal His Son in me, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

above every ruler and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the coming [age].

that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies,

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

[And h]aving disarmed principalities and powers, He mocked them in public, triumphing over them in it.

who having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to Him.

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

And the Lord said to the devil, From where have you come? Then the devil said before the Lord, I have come from going throughout the world, and walking about the whole earth.

When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.

I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,