1 Corinthians 9:24
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
23And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that with them I may share in its blessings.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box — not like a man hitting the air.
Galatians 5:7You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth?
Philippians 3:14I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.
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 →