1 Corinthians 9:26

Geneva Bible (1560)

I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

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  • Phil 1:21 : 21 For Christ is to me both in life, & in death aduantage.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed: for I knowe whom I haue beleeued, and I am persuaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed to him against that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, giue rather diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye doe these things, ye shall neuer fall.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And if any man also striue for a Masterie, he is not crowned, except he striue as he ought to doe.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let vs feare therefore, least at any time by forsaking the promes of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to be depriued.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 And from the time of Iohn Baptist hitherto, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Striue to enter in at the straite gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 So likewise you, by the tongue, except yee vtter wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstand what is spoken? for ye shal speake in the ayre.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly gouernours, the princes of the darkenesse of this worlde, against spirituall wickednesses, which are in ye hie places.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you, I beseech which am also an elder, and a witnesse of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe reueiled,

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    22To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

    23And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

    24Knowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.

    25And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth fro all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

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    3Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good souldier of Iesus Christ.

    4No man that warreth, entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life, because he woulde please him that hath chosen him to be a souldier.

    5And if any man also striue for a Masterie, he is not crowned, except he striue as he ought to doe.

    6The husbandman must labour before he receiue the fruites.

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    7I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.

    8For hence foorth is laide vp for me the crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lorde the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me onely, but vnto all them also that loue that his appearing.

  • Phil 3:11-14
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    11If by any meanes I might attaine vnto the resurrection of the dead:

    12Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus.

    13Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before,

    14And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.

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    16Holding forth the worde of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither haue laboured in vaine.

  • Col 1:29
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    29Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.

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    12Fight the good fight of faith: lay holde of eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, & hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

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    1Wherefore, let vs also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, cast away euery thing that presseth downe, and the sinne that hangeth so fast on: let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs,

  • 2 Cor 10:2-4
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    2And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.

    3Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

    4(For the weapons of our warrefare are not carnall, but mightie through God, to cast downe holdes)

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    12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly gouernours, the princes of the darkenesse of this worlde, against spirituall wickednesses, which are in ye hie places.

    13For this cause take vnto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the euill day, and hauing finished all things, stand fast.

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    31By your reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord, I die dayly.

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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers.

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    6Nowe these things, brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto mine owne selfe and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man presume aboue that which is written, that one swell not against another for any mans cause.

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    17That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.

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    13I am able to do al things through the helpe of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

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    20Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.

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    16The one part preacheth Christ of contention and not purely, supposing to adde more affliction to my bandes.

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    9As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:

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    16And to preache the Gospel in those regions which are beyonde you: not to reioyce in another mans line, that is, in the thinges that are prepared alreadie.

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    8And also if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to battell?

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    18This commaundement commit I vnto thee, sonne Timotheus, according to the prophecies, which went before vpon thee, that thou by them shouldest fight a good fight,

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    22And whether to liue in the flesh were profitable for me, and what to chuse I knowe not.

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    17And take the helmet of saluation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the worde of God.