1 Corinthians 9:24
Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.
Jeremiah 12:5If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
Galatians 5:7Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have combated the good combat, 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 →