19. For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21. to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
24. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain.
25. And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
27. but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.