Verse 24

1 Corinthians 9:24

Darby Translation

24 Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

Original Language Text

greek

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι οἱ ἐν σταδίῳ τρέχοντες πάντες μὲν τρέχουσιν, εἷς δὲ λαμβάνει τὸ βραβεῖον; οὕτως τρέχετε ἵνα καταλάβητε.

English Translation

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Yashua (Jesus) our Lord? are not *ye* my work in... Focus ↗

2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are... Focus ↗

3 My defence to those who examine me is this: Focus ↗

4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink? Focus ↗

5 have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren o... Focus ↗

6 Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work? Focus ↗

7 Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or... Focus ↗

8 Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things? Focus ↗

9 For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is Go... Focus ↗

10 or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plough... Focus ↗

11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal thin... Focus ↗

12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, b... Focus ↗

13 Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple;... Focus ↗

14 So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings. Focus ↗

15 But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus i... Focus ↗

16 For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for... Focus ↗

17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an adm... Focus ↗

18 What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings cos... Focus ↗

19 For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible]. Focus ↗

20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under... Focus ↗

21 to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God (Elohim), but as legitimately subje... Focus ↗

22 I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all thing... Focus ↗

23 And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them. Focus ↗

24 Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in...

25 But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they m... Focus ↗

26 *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. Focus ↗

27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself... Focus ↗

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