1 Corinthians 9:19–27

¹⁹For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

²¹To them that are under the law, as if were under the law, (whereas myself w not under the law,) that I might gain there that were under the law. To them ik were without the law, as if I were with* 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.

²²To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

²³And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

²⁴Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

²⁵And 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.

²⁶I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.

²⁷But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.