1 Corinthians 9:24
Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may share its benefits with you.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
Galatians 5:7You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?
Philippians 3:14but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press 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 race, 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 →