24. Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
25. Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.
26. Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
27. Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.