but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

Ever reject these profane and old womanish myths; and continually train yourself for the contest of godliness.

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.