1 Corinthians 9:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore I run, not with uncertainty; thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.

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  • Phil 1:21 : 21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Therefore, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, while a promise of entering into his rest remains, any of you should seem to have come short of it.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Strive to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will speak into the air.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

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  • 1 Cor 9:22-25
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    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

  • 2 Tim 2:3-6
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    3Therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

    4No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

    5And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

    6The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

  • 2 Tim 4:7-8
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    7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

    8Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day; and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing.

  • Phil 3:11-14
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    11If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

    12Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

    13Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

    14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.

  • Col 1:29
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    29To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.

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    12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

  • Heb 12:1
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    1Therefore, seeing we also are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • 2 Cor 10:2-4
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    2But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:

    4For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds;

  • Eph 6:12-13
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    12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

    13Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:31-32
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    31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

    32If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead do not rise? 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'

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    30Having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.

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    8For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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    14Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

    15Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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    24But none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

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    13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

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    8Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

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    9And let us not grow weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

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    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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    13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20Yes, I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation:

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    16The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains:

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    9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

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    8For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

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    12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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    18This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

  • Phil 1:22
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    22But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I do not know.

  • Eph 6:17
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    17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;