24 Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.

25 Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown.

26 I do not run without definite aim purpose and I do not fight like a man beating the air.

27 But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.