24 Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.

25 And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should become a reprobate.