1 Corinthians 9:27
but I subdue my body, and reduce it to servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a reprobate.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air;
Cross References
Luke 9:25For, what will a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his life or be deprived of it?
Luke 13:26And ye will begin to say: We have eaten and drunken before thee; and thou hast taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no permanent home:
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 →