1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:54And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Ephesians 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.
2 Timothy 2:5And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.
Titus 1:8but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.
Hebrews 12:4Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;
James 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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 →