 In reality, in the passage, the one we're running against is ourselves. We're running against ourselves. Think about that. That's the competition. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery, striveth, that doesn't sound like a real comfortable term, does it? Everyone that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things, self-controlled.