1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Luke 9:25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Luke 13:26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
Romans 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, 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 →