1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
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In Context
23And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5\19:4\Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
Jeremiah 12:5If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
Galatians 5:7You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
Philippians 3:14I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, 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 →