1 Corinthians 9:24
Know ye not that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the victory. Run ye, so as to attain.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this I do, that I may participate in the announcement.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air;
Galatians 5:7Ye did run well: who hath interrupted you, that ye acquiesce not in the truth?
Philippians 3:14and I run straight for the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the call of God from on high, by Jesus the Messiah.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;
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 →