1 Corinthians 9:26
*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
In Context
Cross References
Judges 3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:
Luke 13:24Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Ephesians 6:12because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.
Colossians 1:29Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.
2 Timothy 2:5And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.
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 →