Verse

1 Corinthians 9:26

A church father on this verse

“Paul means that he fights not merely with his words but with his deeds.”

Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

Original

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

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In context

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

²⁵And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

— 1 Corinthians 9:26 —

²⁷But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.