Verse 25

1 Corinthians 9:25

Literal Standard Version

25 and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
Original Language Text
greek
πᾶς δὲ ὁ ἀγωνιζόμενος πάντα ἐγκρατεύεται, ἐκεῖνοι μὲν οὖν ἵνα φθαρτὸν στέφανον λάβωσιν, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἄφθαρτον.
English Translation
But every competitor exercises self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 9 Context
1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Yashua (Jesus) Christ our Lord? Are you not my w... Focus ↗
2 If I am not an apostle to others—yet doubtless I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship i... Focus ↗
3 My defense to those who examine me in this: Focus ↗
4 do we not have authority to eat and to drink? Focus ↗
5 Do we not have authority to lead about a sister—a wife—as also the other apostles, and the brothers... Focus ↗
6 Or do only Barnabas and I have no authority not to work? Focus ↗
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of it... Focus ↗
8 Do I speak these things according to man? Or does the Law not also say these things? Focus ↗
9 For in the Law of Moses it has been written: “you will not muzzle an ox treading out grain”; does Go... Focus ↗
10 Or by all means does He say it because of us? Yes, because of us it was written, because in hope oug... Focus ↗
11 If we sowed to you the spiritual things—is it great if we reap your fleshly things? Focus ↗
12 If others partake of the authority over you—do we not more? But we did not use this authority, but w... Focus ↗
13 Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple eat of the temple, and those wa... Focus ↗
14 So also the LORD directed to those proclaiming the good news to live of the good news. Focus ↗
15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my... Focus ↗
16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid on me, and woe is t... Focus ↗
17 for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—I have been entrusted with a steward... Focus ↗
18 What, then, is my reward? That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of th... Focus ↗
19 for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain; Focus ↗
20 and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law as under law, that I... Focus ↗
21 to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God (Elohim), but within law to Chris... Focus ↗
22 to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; to all men I have become all things, that by... Focus ↗
23 And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it; Focus ↗
24 have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run t... Focus ↗
25 and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive...
26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; Focus ↗
27 but I bruise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I my... Focus ↗