1 Corinthians 9:19-27

¹⁹For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. ²⁰To 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. ²¹To 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.²²To 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.²³I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.²⁴Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.²⁵Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. ²⁶So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.²⁷But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified