24. Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it.
25. And everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown.
26. Therefore I run accordingly, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.
27. But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, so that when I have proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.