1 Corinthians 9:24
Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.
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In Context
23And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
Jeremiah 12:5If thou have run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how can thou contend with horses? And though in a land of peace thou are secure, yet how will thou do in the pride of the Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.
Galatians 5:7Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24
The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →