24 Know ye not that they who run in {the} race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.25 But every one that contends {for a prize} is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.26 *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest {after} having preached to others I should be myself rejected.