9:19 For though I was free from all `men,' I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 9:21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 9:23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof. 9:24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. 9:25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they `do it' to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 9:26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 9:27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.