1 Corinthians 9:27
but I tame my body and bringe it into subieccion lest after that I have preached to other I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therfore so runne not as at an vncertayne thinge. So fyght I not as one that beateth the ayer:
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what avauntageth it a man to wynne the whole worlde yf he loose him sylfe or runne in domage of him sylfe?
Luke 13:26Then shall ye begin to saye. We have eaten in thy presence and dronke and thou hast taught in oure stretes.
Romans 6:18Ye are then made fre from synne and are be come the servauntes of rightewesnes.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted with fistes and have no certayne dwellinge 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 →