1 Corinthians 9:19-27 - Paul's Work As An Apostle
19 For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law; 21 to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some. 23 But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.
24 Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it. 25 But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: 27 but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.