1 Corinthians 9:25
But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:54But when this corruptible may put on incorruption, and this mortal may put on immorality, then shall the word which has been written be fulfilled, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Ephesians 6:12because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.
2 Timothy 2:5But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.
Titus 1:8but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;
Hebrews 12:4For you have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin;
James 1:12Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.
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 →