1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 3:2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
Luke 13:24Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
Ephesians 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
Colossians 1:29Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.
2 Timothy 2:5For he also that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned, except he strive 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 →