1 Corinthians 9:24
have ye not known that those running in a race — all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
Cross References
Psalms 19:5And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.
Jeremiah 12:5For — with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, [In which] thou art confident — And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
Galatians 5:7Ye were running well; who did hinder you — not to obey the truth?
Philippians 3:14to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:7the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,
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 →