1 Corinthians 9:24-26

Darby Translation

²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

²⁵ But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

²⁶ *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.