1 Corinthians 9:27

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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 a castaway.

In Context

26For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

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Cross References

Luke 9:25"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Luke 13:26"Then you will begin saying, ‘But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.’

Romans 6:18and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -

1 Corinthians 4:11Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

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 →

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