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1 Corinthians 9:19-27
19 [/SUP]For though I am free from all,
I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. [SUP]
23 [/SUP]I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
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24 [/SUP]Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. [SUP]
25 [/SUP]Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. [SUP]
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But I discipline my body and keep it under control,[SUP]
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lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.