I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating 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;

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

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling 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.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

“ Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.