24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: …
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)In these verses the apostle hints at the great encouragement he had to act in this manner. He had a glorious prize, an incorruptible crown, in view. Upon this head he compares himself to the racers and combatants in the Isthmian games, an allusion well known to the Corinthians, because they were celebrated in their neighbourhood: “ Know you not that those who run in a race run all, but one obtaine…
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