1. 1Corinthians 9:24-27

2. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self- control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

3. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

4. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

6. Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

7. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?“ He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

8. Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

9. The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

10. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

12. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

13. So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-- if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

14. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

15. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

16. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

17. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

19. pray without ceasing,

20. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

21. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

22. giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

23. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

24. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

25. do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

27. Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

28. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

29. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

31. Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

32. Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.