To those outside the law I became as one outside the law not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. So run that you may obtain it.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things.
They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. The Apostles, the friends of Christ and preachers of Jesus our Savior, bore the Cross in their hands in the likeness of a plow-share. And they cleared the earth, which was perishing through the error of idols, and cultivated it with the faith, sowing in it the word of life. Let us all honor them. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.