1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
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In Context
23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
Jeremiah 12:5“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
Galatians 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight. 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 →