1 Corinthians 9:24

World English Bible

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

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1 Corinthians 9:24 in other translations

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

1 Corinthians 9:24 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 9:24 in context

  1. 22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  2. 23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
  3. 24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
  4. 25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
  5. 26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

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