1 Corinthians 9:27
No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box — not like a man hitting the air.
Cross References
Luke 9:25What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?
Luke 13:26Then you will begin to say ‘We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets,’ and his reply will be —
Romans 6:18Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we 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 →