24 Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

25 And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

26 I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

27 But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.