1 Corinthians 9:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

²⁵ And 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.

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