1 Corinthians 9:24-27
New King James Version
Striving for a Crown
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? (A)Run in such a way that you may [a]obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize [b]is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for (B)an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: (C)not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 (D)But I discipline my body and (E)bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become (F)disqualified.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:24 win
- 1 Corinthians 9:25 exercises self-control
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
American Standard Version
24 Know ye not that they that run in a [a]race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so [b]fight I, as not beating the air: 27 but I [c]buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I [d]have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:24 Greek race-course.
- 1 Corinthians 9:26 Greek box.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 Greek bruise. Lk. 18:5.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 Or, have been a herald
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