1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what advantage hath a man in gaining all the would, if he destroy himself, or be punished with the loss of life?
Luke 13:26then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;
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 →