of His followers as lights and salt in the world (Matt. 5:13–16). Peter refers to Christians as babes and as living stones (1 Pet. 2:2, 5). Paul was particularly fond of the figure of the race. He uses such phrases as “run in a race” (1 Cor. 9:24), “running well” (Gal. 5:7), and “run in vain” (Phil. 2:16). This is also the figure used by the writer in Hebrews 12:1–3. In these few verses we see various aspects of the race, as they are compared to the faithful life in Christ: the