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Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
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Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
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Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;
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but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)