1 Corinthians 9:24
Knowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Cross References
Psalms 19:5Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mightie man to runne his race.
Jeremiah 12:5If thou hast runne with the footemen and they haue wearied thee, then howe canst thou match thy selfe with horses? and if thou thoughtest thy selfe safe in a peaceable lande, what wilt thou do in the swelling of Iorden?
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.
Galatians 5:7Ye did runne well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the trueth?
Philippians 3:14And follow hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue 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 →