1 Corinthians 9:24
have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain;
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In Context
23And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it;
Cross References
Psalms 19:5And he, as a bridegroom, goes out from his covering, || He rejoices as a mighty one || To run the path.
Jeremiah 12:5“For you have run with footmen, || And they weary you, || And how you fret yourself with horses! Even in the land of peace, || [In which] you are confident—And how will you do in the rising of Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
Galatians 5:7You were running well; who hindered you [so as] not to obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14I pursue to the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have striven the good strife, I have finished the 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 →