1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
23And I am doing it all for the gospel’s sake, that I may become a copartner in it.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,
Galatians 5:7You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Philippians 3:14I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God’s heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24
The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →