King James Version (KJV)

1 Corinthians 9:24

“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 9

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

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