Greek games, but the moral resolve to keep the law may well be the background of Paul’s metaphor.… The allusion to ‘running the way of the commandments’ would cohere very closely with Rom. 9:30f where the similar word dioko [pursue] appears: ‘The Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness attained righteousness, the righteousness from faith; but Israel, though pursuing a law of righteousness did not reach the law’ (cf. also Phil. 3:14–15) (132). Piper also cites sources from Jewish writings for support