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A runner trains on a rocky path at sunset.
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Run With Purpose

Rights, Service, and the Race · 1 Corinthians 9

Story guide: Paul compares disciplined service to athletic training for a lasting prize.

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24Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in this way, so that you may obtain it.

25Everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. They do so in order to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

26So then, I run in this way: not aimlessly; in this way I box: not beating the air.

27But I discipline my body and make it my servant, lest somehow, after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.

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