Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

1 Corinthians 9
²⁴ Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!
²⁵ All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.
²⁶ So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing.
²⁷ I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10
¹ I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground.
² In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses.
³ All of them ate the same spiritual food,
⁴ and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.
⁵ Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
⁶ These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did,
⁷ or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”