1 Corinthians 9:25

1 Corinthians 9:25

23 Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

Striving for a Crown

24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? ^aRun in such a way that you may¹ obtain it.

25 And everyone who competes for the prize¹ is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for ^aan imperishable crown.

26 Therefore I run thus: ^anot with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

27 ^aBut I discipline my body and ^bbring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become ^cdisqualified.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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striveth—in wrestling: a still more severe contest than the foot race.

is temperate—So Paul exercised self-denial, abstaining from claiming sustenance for the sake of the "reward," namely, to "gain the more" (I Corinthians 9:18-19).

corruptible—soon withering, as being only of fir leaves taken from the fir groves which surrounded the Isthmian race course or stadium.

incorruptible— (I Peter 1:4; I Peter 5:4; Revelation 2:10). "Crown" here is not that of a king (which is expressed by a different Greek word, namely, "diadem"), but a wreath or garland.

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