19 For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all, that I might gaine the more.
20 And vnto the Iewes, I became as a Iew, that I might gaine the Iewes: to them that are vnder the Law, as vnder the Law, that I might gaine them that are vnder the Law:
21 To them that are without Law, as without Law (being not without Law to God, but vnder the Law to Christ,) that I might gaine them that are without Law.
22 To the weake became I as weake, that I might gaine the weake: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.
23 And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24 Know yee not that they which runne in a race, runne all, but one receiueth the price? So runne, that yee may obtaine.
25 And euery man that striueth for the masterie, is temperate in all things: Now they doe it to obtaine a corruptible crowne, but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre:
27 But I keepe vnder my body, and bring it into subiection: lest that by any meanes when I haue preached to others, I my selfe should be a castaway.
1 Cor 9:19-27
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