1 Corinthians 9:19-27 (Epistle)
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- For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;
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- and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;
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- to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law;
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- 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.
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- Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.
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- Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
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- And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
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- Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
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- But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.