1 Corinthians 9:27
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Luke 9:25What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Luke 13:26Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
Romans 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
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 →