1 Corinthians 9:19–27

¹⁹For although I^* am free from all people, I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more. ²⁰I 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. ²¹To 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. ²²To 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. ²³I do all this for the sake of the gospel, in order that I may become a participant with it.

²⁴Do 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. ²⁵And 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. ²⁶Therefore I run in this way, not as running aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air. ²⁷But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after^* preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.