1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run the race, but that only one receives the prize? So run to win the prize.
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23I do all things for the gospel's sake, so that I may participate in its blessings.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5The sun is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber 1 and like a strong man who rejoices when he runs his race. 1
Jeremiah 12:5Yahweh said, “Indeed, if you, Jeremiah, have run with foot soldiers and they have tired you out, how can you compete against horses? 1 If you fall down in the safe countryside, how will you do in the thickets along the Jordan? 1
1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I do not run without purpose or box by beating the air.
Galatians 5:7You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth?
Philippians 3:14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have competed in the good contest; I have finished the race; 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 →