*1.* “I can do all things through him who strengthens me. But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” So the last will be first, and the first last.” *2* “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” *3* “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.” *4* “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”