1 Corinthians 9:21-27 Modern English Version (MEV)

21. to those who are outside the law, as outside the law (being not without God’s law, but under Christ’s law) that I might win those who are outside the law.

22. To the weak, I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

23. This I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might partake of it with you.

24. Do you not know that all those who run in a race run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain it.

25. Everyone who strives for the prize exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

26. So, therefore, I run, not with uncertainty. So I fight, not as one who beats the air.

27. But I bring and keep my body under subjection, lest when preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 9