1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 13:24Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
2 Corinthians 5:1FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle should be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Ephesians 6:12For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.
Colossians 1:29for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
2 Timothy 2:5And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws.
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 →