²⁴ Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win. ²⁵ Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

² I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

⁷ You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

¹⁶ holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.