1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
23And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
Galatians 5:7You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?
Philippians 3:14with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded 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 →