1 Corinthians 9:24
Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
Galatians 5:7Ye did run well: who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Philippians 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, 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 →