1 Corinthians 9:27

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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 a castaway.

In Context

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,

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Cross References

Luke 9:25Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

Luke 13:26"Then you will plead, "`We have eaten and drunk in your company and you have taught in our streets.'

Romans 6:18You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--

1 Corinthians 4:11To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.

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 →

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