1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.
Luke 9:25For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?
Luke 13:26then ye will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou taught in our thoroughfares.
Romans 6:18And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness
1 Corinthians 4:11As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.
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 →