Bible Verses About Pressing On

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,

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, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

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.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”