1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
23But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:
Galatians 5:7You were running well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my 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 →