1 Corinthians 9:27
but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
26I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
Cross References
Luke 9:25For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be destroyed?
Luke 13:26then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drank in thy presence,
Romans 6:18and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present time we suffer both hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling:
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 →