Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: