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On The Other Hand, I Will Do Everything Needed To Win My Race And Keep My Prize

24 Do[a] you not know that the ones running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Be running in this manner: that you may take-hold-of the prize. 25 And everyone competing exercises-self-control as to all things. So those do it in order that they might receive a decayable crown, but we an undecayable one. 26 So-indeed I run in this manner, as not aimlessly[b]. I box in this manner, as not beating the air.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Paul now gives a positive reason. Do these things not only to not hinder the gospel (for the good of others, 8:13-9:23), but to take hold of your own reward (for your own good).
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:26 Or, uncertainly, unknowingly.

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