1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Do you not know that the runners in a race, all run, but only one is victorious? So you must run, that you may obtain victory.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁴ Do you not know that the runners in a race, all run, but only one is victorious? So you must run, that you may obtain victory. ²⁵ And every man who battles in the contest, frees his mind from every thing else. And yet they run to win a garland which is perishable; but we to win one which is everlasting. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not for something that is uncertain; and I so fight, not as one who beats the air: