Verse 24

1 Corinthians 9:24

Noah Webster Bible

24 Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, 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 an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Yashua (Jesus) Christ our Lord? are ye not my wo... Focus ↗

2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are the seal of my apostleship i... Focus ↗

3 My answer to them that examine me is this, Focus ↗

4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? Focus ↗

5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of... Focus ↗

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working? Focus ↗

7 Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its f... Focus ↗

8 Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? Focus ↗

9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out t... Focus ↗

10 Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that pl... Focus ↗

11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? Focus ↗

12 If others are partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used thi... Focus ↗

13 Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live from the things of the temple, and they... Focus ↗

14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. Focus ↗

15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done... Focus ↗

16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe i... Focus ↗

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gos... Focus ↗

18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ witho... Focus ↗

19 For though I am free from all men , yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the mor... Focus ↗

20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as un... Focus ↗

21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God (Elohim), but under the... Focus ↗

22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men , that... Focus ↗

23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you . Focus ↗

24 Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may...

25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a c... Focus ↗

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

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to ot... Focus ↗

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