1 Corinthians 9:25-27 - WEB
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Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
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I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
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but I beat my body and bring it into submission, for fear that by any means, that after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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