2 Timothy 2:5Open English Bible (US)
No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless they have kept the rules.
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Ruth 1:16
But Ruth answered, “Do not urge me to leave you or to go back. I will go where you go, and I will stay wherever you stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God;
Ruth 3:18
“Wait quietly, my daughter.” Naomi said, “Until you know how the affair will turn out, for the man will not rest unless he settles it all today.”
Esther 1:19
If it seems best to the king, let him send out a royal edict. Let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, never to be repealed, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus. Let the king give her place as queen to another who is more worthy than she.
Esther 1:22
He sent letters to all the provinces, to every province in its own system of writing and to every people in their language, that every man should be master in his own house!
Esther 2:11
Every day Mordecai would to walk in front of the courtyard of the harem and ask after Esther’s health and what was happening to her.