Bible Verses about “pressing towards the goal”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

“¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

“Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

“¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”

“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:”

“Who will render to every man according to his deeds:”

“¶ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.”

“¶ Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;”

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,”

“Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:”

“That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.”