Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

所以，我奔跑不像无定向的；我斗拳不像打空气的。

所以，我奔跑，不像无目标的；我斗拳，不像打空气的。

所以，我奔跑，不像无目标的；我斗拳，不像打空气的。

因此，我奔跑不是漫无目标，我击拳不是打空气。

所以我奔跑，不是没有目标的；我斗拳，不是打空气的。

因此，我奔跑不像没有目标的；我斗拳不像打空气的；

所以，我奔跑不像無定向的；我鬥拳不像打空氣的。

所以，我奔跑，不像無目標的；我鬥拳，不像打空氣的。

所以，我奔跑，不像無目標的；我鬥拳，不像打空氣的。

因此，我奔跑不是漫無目標，我擊拳不是打空氣。

所以我奔跑，不是沒有目標的；我鬥拳，不是打空氣的。

所以我、我這樣奔跑、不是無定向地；我這樣鬥拳、不是打空氣的。

因此，我奔跑不像沒有目標的；我鬥拳不像打空氣的；

故我馳逐、非如無定、我搏鬥、非如擊空、

故我角勝、無復狐疑、我力搏、非如虛擊、

故我爭趨非如無定向、鬥拳非如擊虛空、

故予之競走、非無目的、予之揮拳、非無對象、

Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.

So I do not run like someone who doesn’t run toward the finish line. I do not fight like a boxer who hits nothing but air.

So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing.

So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.

Therefore I run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as to avoid hitting air;

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.

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

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

“ Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed:

We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.