Bible verse
Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
1 Corinthians 9:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 9.
22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
25 Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
26 Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
27 No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
KJV
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
ASV
I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
ERV
I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
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