20. And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:
21. To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.
22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.
23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.
24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain.
25. And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one.
26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:
27. But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.