8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Faith
• Obedience and Disobedience

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 9:24 — Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• 1Cor 9:24 — Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• 1Cor 9:25 — And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
• 1Cor 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• 1Pet 5:9 — Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
• 1Tim 1:18 — This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
• 1Tim 1:18 — This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
• 1Tim 6:12 — Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• 1Tim 6:12 — Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• 1Tim 6:20 — O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
• 2Cor 5:8 — We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• 2Cor 6:7 — By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 2Cor 10:3 — For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 2Tim 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• 2Tim 2:5 — And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
• Acts 13:25 — And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
• Acts 20:24 — But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel
• Dan 12:13 — But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
• Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
• Heb 12:1 — 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
• Heb 12:1 — 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
• John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• John 4:36 — And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
• John 17:4 — I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
• John 17:6 — I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• Jude 1:3 — Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once deli
• Luke 8:15 — But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• Luke 11:28 — But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
• Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
• Neh 4:17 — They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
• Phil 1:27 — Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striv
• Phil 1:30 — Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
• Phil 3:13 — 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,
• Phil 3:14 — I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Prov 21:21 — He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
• Prov 23:23 — Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Rev 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and
• Rev 3:8 — I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
• Rev 3:8 — I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
• Rev 3:10 — Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.