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1 Corinthians 9:26

Verse 26 of 27. The 9th of 16 chapters in 1 Corinthians, in The Letters of Paul.

22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.