1 Corinthians 9:20-27 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

Haweis⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; ²¹ to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law. ²² I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak; I became all things to all men, that by every means I might save some. ²³ And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you. ²⁴ Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain. ²⁵ And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air: ²⁷ but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.