1 CORINTHIANS 9.23-27

And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it; have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain; and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible; I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.

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EZEKIEL 36.37

Thus said Lord YHWH: Yet this I am inquired of by the house of Israel to do for them: I multiply them as a flock of men,

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GENESIS 42.36

all these [things] have been against me.

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JOHN 15.2

every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

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PSALM 62.8

Trust in Him at all times, O people, || Pour forth your heart before Him, || God [is] a refuge for us.

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REVELATION 12.10-12

And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, “Now came the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers was cast down, who is accusing them before our God day and night; and they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life—to death; because of this be glad, you heavens, and those who dwell in them;