1 Corinthians 9:27
but I chastise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others — I myself may become disapproved.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
Cross References
Exodus 37:22their knops and their branches have been of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Jeremiah 6:30'Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
Luke 9:25for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?
Luke 13:26then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;
Romans 6:18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
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 →