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

25 And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26 So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as [one who] beats the air.

27 But I buffet my body, and lead [it] captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.