1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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Judges 3:2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Ephesians 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Colossians 1:29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
2 Timothy 2:5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:25-27
The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be… Read the whole commentary →