1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
In Context
Cross References
Luke 13:24Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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.
Colossians 1:29unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.
2 Timothy 2:5But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.
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 →