1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest haply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air.
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what is a man profited, when he has gained the whole world, and lost or forfeited himself?
Luke 13:26then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets.
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
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 →