but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

But am beating my body under, and leading it captive, lest, by any means, - unto others, having proclaimed, the contest , I myself, should be rejected.

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.