1 Corinthians 9:24-26
24 aDo you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives bthe prize? cRun in such a way that you may win. 25 Now everyone who acompetes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a corruptible bcrown, but we an incorruptible. 26 Therefore I arun in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not bbeating the air;
Philippians 3:13
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do: aforgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,