1 Corinthians 9:27
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
26*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knobs and their branches were of itself all of one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
Luke 9:25For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?
Luke 13:26then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;
Romans 6:18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander 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 →