1 Corinthians 9:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

1 Corinthians 9:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Timothy 2:5
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Colossians 1:29
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. I--Paul returns to his main subject, his own self-denial, and his motive in it. run, not as uncertainly--not as a runner uncertain of the goal. Ye Corinthians gain no end in your entering idol temples or eating idol meats. But I, for my part, in all my acts, whether in my becoming “all things to all men,” or in receiving no sustenance from my converts, have a definite end in view, namely, to “…