1 Corinthians 9:25
Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:54And when this corruptible body shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.
Ephesians 6:12for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.
2 Timothy 2:5And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.
Titus 1:8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,
Hebrews 12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;
James 1:12Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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 →