009:019 Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.
009:020 To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews;
to men under the Law as if I were under the Law—although I am not—
in order to win those who are under the Law;
009:021 to men without Law as if I were without Law—although I am not
without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law—
in order to win those who are without Law.
009:022 To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak.
To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every
one of these ways I may save some.
009:023 And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
009:024 Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
009:025 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
009:026 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
009:027 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off
into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others,
I should myself be rejected.
010:001 For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers
were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely
through the Red Sea.