1 Corinthians 9:27
Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
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In Context
26And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Thus, both the little spheres and the branches were from the same thing: all hand-worked from the purest gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Call them: ‘Rejected silver.’ For the Lord has cast them aside.”
Luke 9:25For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?
Luke 13:26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
Romans 6:18And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady.
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 →