1 Corinthians 9:27
But I beat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26Therefore, I do not run aimlessly; and I do not fight as one who beats the air:
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what advantage is there for a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?
Luke 13:26Then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.
Romans 6:18Being then set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are ill-clothed, and are buffeted, and are homeless;
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 →