1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that they who run a race, all run; but one only rcceiveth the prize? In this manner run ye, that you may obtain.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁴ Do you not know that they who run a race, all run; but one only rcceiveth the prize? In this manner run ye, that you may obtain. ²⁵ Now, every one who is to contend in the public games is temperate in all things. They indeed do this that they may obtain a corruptible crown. But we [to obtain] one that is incorruptible. ²⁶ For my part, therefore, I run in this manner, not as if I were running unseen: I fight, not as if I were beating the air; ²⁷ but I buffet my body and subdue it, lest having proclaimed the glad tidings to others I myself should be disapproved.