1 Corinthians 9:20-27 So with the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; and with those who are under the law, I became as one who is under the law, in order to win those who are under the law.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ So with the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; and with those who are under the law, I became as one who is under the law, in order to win those who are under the law. ²¹ To those who are without law, I became like one who is without law, though I am not lawless before God because I am under the law of Christ, that I might win them who are without law. ²² With the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak: I became everything to every man, that I might by all means save everyone. ²³ And this I do for the gospelÆs sake, that I might be partaker of it. ²⁴ Do you not know that the runners in a race, all run, but only one is victorious? So you must run, that you may obtain victory. ²⁵ And every man who battles in the contest, frees his mind from every thing else. And yet they run to win a garland which is perishable; but we to win one which is everlasting. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not for something that is uncertain; and I so fight, not as one who beats the air: ²⁷ But I conquer and subdue my body so that, by no chance, when I have preached to others, will I despise myself.