1 Corinthians 9:27
But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:
Cross References
Exodus 37:22So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten work of the purest gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away himself?
Luke 13:26Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
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 →