1 THESSALONIANS 5.16-18
always rejoice; continually pray; give thanks in everything, for this [is] the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.
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1 CORINTHIANS 1.30-31
but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, that, according as it has been written: “He who is glorying—let him glory in the LORD.”
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ROMANS 9.20
O man, who are you that are answering again to God? Will the thing formed say to Him who formed [it], Why did you make me thus?
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HEBREWS 12.1-3
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance, looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God; for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
PHILIPPIANS 3.12-14
Not that I already obtained, or have already been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of by Christ Jesus; brothers, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold [of it], but one thing [I do]—indeed forgetting the things behind, and stretching forth to the things before—I pursue to the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.