1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Twentieth_Century(i) 24 Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. 26 I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air. 27 No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.