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1 Corinthians 9:26–27

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26So I do not run aimlessly; I wdo not box as one xbeating the air. 27But I discipline my body and ykeep it under control,2 lest after preaching to others zI myself should be adisqualified.

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Footnotes

  1. 2Greek I pummel my body and make it a slave

Cross references

  1. w[Heb. 12:4]
  2. x[ch. 14:9]
  3. y[Rom. 6:19]
  4. z[Song 1:6]
  5. a[Jer. 6:30; Rom. 1:28; Heb. 6:8]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air. Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

NLTNew Living Translation

So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore I run in this way, not as running aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air. But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.

KJV 1900King James Version

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