1 Corinthians 9:24
Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run that you may obtain.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.
Jeremiah 12:5If thou hast wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:
Galatians 5:7You did run well, who hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 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 →