1 Corinthians 9:27
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 a castaway.
King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke 13:26Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
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 →