Study Desk

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Therefore I run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as to avoid hitting air;

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

but I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.