23. I do it all for the sake of the Good News, so that I might be a fellow partaker of it.
24. Don’t you know that in a stadium the runners all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win!
25. Every competitor exercises self-control in all respects. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we do it to receive an imperishable one.
26. So I run in this way—not aimlessly. So I box in this way—not beating the air.
27. Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.