1 Corinthians 9:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

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  • Phil 1:21 : 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 `And, from the days of John the Baptist till now, the reign of the heavens doth suffer violence, and violent men do take it by force,
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

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    22I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

    23And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

    24have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

    25and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

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    27but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

  • 2 Tim 2:3-6
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    3thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

    4no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

    5and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

    6the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

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    7the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

    8henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

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    11if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

    12Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

    13brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

    14to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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    16the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

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    29for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

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    12be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

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    1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

    3for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

    4for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

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    12because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

    13because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

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    15And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

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    58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

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    31Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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    30the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

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    24but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    13Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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    13For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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    16the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

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    9as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

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    8for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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    18This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

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    22And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

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    17and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,