1 Corinthians 9:27
but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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
Luke 9:25For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and destroy himself, or be lost?
Luke 13:26then, you will begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,
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 →