1 Corinthians 9:27
but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
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
Luke 9:25For what is a man profited, gaining the whole world, and losing or forfeiting himself?
Luke 13:26Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst preach in our streets.
Romans 6:18but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp,
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 →