Bible Verses about “pressing towards the goal”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

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

“Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,”

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

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”

“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”

“but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,”

“For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.”

“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”

“Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.”

“to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;”

“who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"”

“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”

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

“Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.”

“Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;”

“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.”

“Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,”

“praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;”

“that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.”