Here, the Apostle Paul, drawing from the familiar Isthmian Games near Corinth, challenges believers in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 to run the Christian race with the same intense determination, self-discipline, and purpose as the athletes: “So run, that ye may obtain,” being temperate in all things and keeping the body under subjection so that, after preaching the gospel to others, one is not disqualified from reward. The race is not about losing one’s salvation (which is secure by grace through faith) but about winning an incorruptible crown and eternal rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ—thus believers must run with patience, laying aside every weight and sin while looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.