20. I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law I became as under the law (although I myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law.
21. To those outside the law I became as outside the law (although I am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.
22. To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, in order that by all means I may save some.
23. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, in order that I may become a participant with it.
24. Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
25. And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. Thus those do so in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
26. Therefore I run in this way, not as running aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
27. But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.