1 Corinthians 9:27
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Luke 9:25For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
Luke 13:26then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets;
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
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 →