“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?  Run in such a way as to get the prize.  Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.  They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air.  No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 New International Version

“Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.”

Proverbs 29:6 New International Version

“Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers.  Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.  He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 8:1-3 New International Version

“When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.”

Proverbs 3:24 New International Version

“Blessed is the man you discipline, O Lord, the man you teach from your law.”

Psalm 94:12 New International Version

“Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'”

Acts 11:16 New International Version

“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.”

3 John 1:2 New International Version

“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—”

Romans 5:12 New International Version

“The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.”

Proverbs 13:14 New International Version

“I lift up my eyes to the hills — where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

Psalm 121:1-2 New International Version