What does 1 Corinthians 9:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain."
Verse 24. _THEY WHICH RUN IN A RACE RUN ALL_] It is sufficiently evident that the apostle alludes to the athletic exercises in the games which were celebrated every fifth year on the isthmus, or narro...
KNOW YE NOT ... - In the remainder of this chapter, Paul illustrates the general sentiment on which he had been dwelling - the duty of practicing self-denial for the salvation of others - by a referen...
6. PAUL'S GRACIOUS EXAMPLE. CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The Apostle's rights. (1 Corinthians 9:1)._ 2. He waives his rights for the Gospel's sake. (1 Corinthians 9:15). 3. The race-course and the crown. (1 Cor...
1 CORINTHIANS 9. This chapter is not a digression, and is not primarily concerned with a vindication of Paul's apostolic status and rights. He enforces his plea that the enlightened should not ride ro...
THE UNCLAIMED PRIVILEGES (1 Corinthians 9:1-14)...
RACE. race-course. Greek. _stadion._ Elsewhere translated "furlong", the course being usually of this length. PRIZE. Greek. _brabeion._ Only here and Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:14. Compare the ve...
Exhortation to Self-restraint 24. _Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?_ Not that this is the case in the Christian course, but that each should manifest the...
ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ ὍΤΙ. The Apostle now introduces the figure of a race-course. He does not mean that in the Christian course only one receives the prize, but that each should manifest the same eagerness and...
_PAUL RAN THE RACE WELL 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27:_ Paul understood that there was a race to run or a fight to win. In this section of scripture he gave a second reason for practicing self-restraint. The...
ΟΪΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ ΣΤΆΔΙΟΝ (G4712) стадион, беговая дорожка, представлявшая собой вытянутый параллелограмм длиной около 182 м и шириной 27 м....
DISCOURSE: 1967 DIRECTIONS FOR RUNNING OUR RACE 1 Corinthians 9:24. _So run, that ye may obtain_. THERE is not any thing around us from which we may not draw some hints for our spiritual instruction....
THEY WHICH RUN IN A RACE, &C.— The Apostle here refers to the _Isthmian games,_ so called from their being celebrated on the Corinthian Isthmus, or the neck of land which joins Peloponnesus to the con...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Reasons For Relinquishment (1 Corinthians 9:19-27) 19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. 20To the Jews I be...
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. KNOW YE NOT. The Isthmian games, in which the foot- race was a leading one, were a subje...
1 The Corinthians questioned the apostleship of Paul. The phrase, "the twelve apostles" has been used to throw doubt on his commission, for if there were but twelve apostles, Paul could not have been...
_(b) Food offered to Idols (ii) St. Paul's own Example_ St. Paul has appealed to the 'enlightened' converts at Corinth to give up for the sake of others a practice which they might otherwise have had...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 THE RIGHTS OF AN *APOSTLE 9:1-27 PAUL IS A REAL *APOSTLE 9:1-2 V1 You know that I am free. You know that I am an *apostle. I have seen J...
KNOW YE NOT... — The illustration which follows refers to these Isthmian games (so called from their taking place in the isthmus where Corinth stood) with which his readers would be familiar. These, l...
CHAPTER 14 NOT ALL WHO RUN WIN IN the preceding part of this chapter Paul has proved his right to claim remuneration from those to whom he preached the Gospel, and he has also given his reasons for d...
Οὐκ οἴδατε …; _cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:13, etc. οἱ ἐν σταδίῳ τρέχοντες, πάντες μὲν τρέχουσιν, εἶς δὲ κ. τ. f1λ.: “Those that run in the stadium, run _all_ (of them), but _one_ receives the prize”. As muc...
“UNDER BONDAGE TO ALL” 1 Corinthians 9:16 Paul's one aim was to _gain men._ He uses the words repeatedly. To gain one more for his Lord, he would forego comfort, emolument, and well-earned repose. H...
The words, "my defence to them that examine me is this," reveal the opposition to him in Corinth. The two words, "defence" and "examine," are purely legal, and are in the language of the courts of jus...
Controlling Self To Receive The Prize All the talk about sacrifice reminded Paul of the sacrifice and self-control necessary to reach the heavenly goal. He used the illustration of runners who sacrifi...
(11) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (11) He brings in another reason for this wrong, that is, that they were given to glut...
_Know you not? Nothing is more famous in the annals of history than the public games in Greece: it is to these the apostle is here alluding. (Calmet) --- All run indeed, &c. He brings the examples of...
II. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SALVATION OF THE STRONG THEMSELVES. 9:23-10:22. As Paul concluded the preceding development by giving his own example, he introduces the following...
(24) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (25) And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they d...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE HEAVENLY RACE_ ‘So run, that ye may obtain.’ 1 Corinthians 9:24 I speak to those who, really believing in Christ, are emancipated from the fetter of sin and are living in the obedience of God’...
24._Know ye not, that they who run in a race. _He has laid down the doctrine, and now, with the view of impressing it upon the minds of the Corinthians, he adds an exhortation. He states briefly, that...
The apostle was exposed to the accusations of false teachers, who asserted that he carried on his evangelisation and his labours from interested motives, and that he took the property of Christians, a...
KNOW YE NOT THAT THEY WHICH RUN IN A RACE,.... The allusion in this and the following verses is to the Grecian games, which consisted, among other things, of running of races, and of wrestling, combat...
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. Ver. 24. _Know ye not_] The apostle argueth from their profane sports, yet approveth them n...
_Know ye not that_ In those famous games, which are kept in the isthmus, near your city; _they who run in a race_ Εν σταδιω, in the stadium, (so the place was called where the athletes contended,) _ru...
RUN IN A RACE; the foot-race, with which the Corinthians were familiar....
KNOW YE NOT THAT THEY WHICH RUN IN A RACE RUN ALL, BUT ONE RECEIVETH THE PRIZE? SO RUN THAT YE MAY OBTAIN....
Because of the lowliness and grace on the part of the apostle, such as chapter 8 shows in the consideration of his brethren, there were some who would use this as an occasion to belittle him. He made...
KNOW YE NOT THAT THEY THAT RUN IN. RACE RUN ALL, BUT ONE RECEIVETH THE PRIZE? EVEN SO RUN; THAT YE MAY ATTAIN. 'run in. race' -'Why does he go to all this trouble? Why is he so serious about his for...
24-27 The apostle compares himself to the racers and combatants in the Isthmian games, well known by the Corinthians. But in the Christian race all may run so as to obtain. There is the greatest encou...
The apostle presseth all his former discourse by minding them of the difficulty of getting to heaven, and of the obligation that lay upon them to be the first in the spiritual race. To this purpose he...
Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? [Philippians 3:12-14] _Even so run; that ye may attain_. [In the Greek contests there was but one prize for each group of...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as One beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to o...
1 Corinthians 9:24 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 run G5143 (G5723) in G1722 race G4712 all G3956 G3303 run G5143 (G5719) but G1161 one G1520 receives G2983 (G5719) prize G1017 Run G5143 (G57...
'Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Even so run; that you may attain.' Then he applies his thoughts to the Corinthians. Like he does, they also should p...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
IN A RACE (εν σταδιω). Old word from ιστημ, to place. A stated or fixed distance, 606 3/4 feet, both masculine σταδιο (Matthew 14:24; Luke 24:13) and neuter as here. Most of the Greek cities had ra...
RACE Race-course....
1 Corinthians 9:24 The Race and the Prize. I. The prize, in the contest that St. Paul speaks of, is a different kind of prize from that which these Corinthians were seeking after in their games. It w...
The apostle Paul is here giving a description of the way in which he made everything help toward the fulfillment of his desire to be a faithful minister of Jesus Christ. He longed to be the means of w...
CONTENTS: Paul vindicates his apostleship. The method and reward of true ministry and the support of the ministry. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Cephas, Barnabas, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for...
1 Corinthians 9:1. _Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?_ Having illustrated the legal customs of the jews respecting meats, he introduc...
SURELY YOU KNOW. Paul uses symbolism that they understand. In a race, only the winner gets the prize. The Isthmian Games (see _introduction)_ were held at Corinth. "If you run in the race, you run to...
_They which run in a race, run all, hut one receiveth the prize._ THE GREEK ATHLETIC FESTIVALS AND THEIR LESSONS 1. Of these the most famous was that held every fifth year at Olympia in the west of...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24 This extended athletic metaphor would have been understood in Corinth. The city was the location of the biennial Isthmian games, second in fame only to the Oly...
CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He proceeds to show by his own example how offences are to be avoided, and he says that he had refused to accept payment, or the maintenance due to a preacher of...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 9:24.—His own salvation is at stake as well as that of his hearers. He must do all these things, not only as expedients which for his hearers’ sakes may make him a succe...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1 The rights and the self denial of an apostle. 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1 An apostle's right to maintenance. 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1 AM I NOT AN APOSTLE I AM I NOT FREE? The order o...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to I Corinthians, chapter 9. I could do a lot of things I don't do. The reason why I don't do them is I do not want to be an offense unto a weaker brethren and destroy his...
1 Corinthians 9:26; 2 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:8; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Galatians 2:2; Galatians 5:7; Hebrews 12:1; Hosea 12:10; James 1:12;...
In a race [ε ν σ τ α δ ι ω]. Or, better, in a race - course. From isthmi to place or establish. Hence a stated distance; a standard of length. In all other New - Testament passages it is used of a mea...
THOSE WHOM GOD CHOOSES 1 Corinthians 9:24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are none of us who would not desire to be used of God in a large way. This is not an unholy ambition. We should not seek great thi...
Know ye not that — In those famous games which are kept at the isthmus, near your city. They who run in the foot race all run, though but one receiveth the prize — How much greater encouragement have...
Does Paul encourage or discourage running to obtain a spiritual goal? PROBLEM: In this text, the apostle encourages the believer to “run in such a way that you may obtain it.” However, in Romans, Pau...
Our apostle, according to his custom in sundry epistles, does in the end of this chapter fall upon the use of terms agonistical, borrowed from the olympic and other Grecian games, celebrated near Cori...