New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 9:22-27

22To the 1weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become 2all things to all men, 3so that I may by all means save some. 23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

24 4Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives 5the prize? 6Run in such a way that you may win. 25Everyone who 7competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable 8wreath, but we an imperishable. 26Therefore I 9run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not 10beating the air; 27but I 11discipline 12my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 9:22 Rom 14:1; 15:1; 2 Cor 11:29 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 9:22 1 Cor 10:33 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 9:22 Rom 11:14 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 9:24 1 Cor 9:13 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Phil 3:14; Col 2:18 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Gal 2:2; 2 Tim 4:7; Heb 12:1 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 9:25 Eph 6:12; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Tim 2:5; 4:7 ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 9:25 2 Tim 4:8; James 1:12; 1 Pet 5:4; Rev 2:10; 3:11 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 9:26 Gal 2:2; 2 Tim 4:7; Heb 12:1 ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 9:26 1 Cor 14:9 ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 9:27 Lit bruise ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:27 Rom 8:13 ↩

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