²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

⁵ And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

12 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,