1 Corinthians 9:27
but my body I subdue and make subservient, lest when to others I shall have preached, I my very self shall be rejected.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as about a thing unknown; and so smite I, as not smiting the air;
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what is helped a son of man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul, or perish?
Luke 13:26And you shall begin to say, Before thee we have eaten and drunk, and in our streets thou hast taught.
Romans 6:18And when you were made free from sin, you became obedient to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Until this hour we hunger and thirst, we are naked and beaten and have no fixed dwelling;
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 →