{"id":2362,"date":"2013-05-31T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2022-04-14T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:22:03","slug":"1-corinthians-924-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 9:24-27"},"content":{"rendered":"

24\u00a0<\/sup>Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain\u00a0it.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

25\u00a0<\/sup>And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

26\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as\u00a0one who\u00a0beats the air.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

27\u00a0<\/sup>But I discipline my body and bring\u00a0it\u00a0into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

run a race (v.24) \u2014 the reference is to the public Isthmian Games held once in three years close to Corinth. With these occasions all the Corinthians were very familiar. There were also the Olympian, Pythian and Nemean Games. These occasions were more than mere contests, they were great national and religious festivals. Only freemen could enter for them, and these only after they had satisfied the officials that they had undergone the appointed preliminary training. Upon the occasion a herald announced the name and country of each competitor. The victor received a crown consisting of a garland of either ivy or pine leaves. His family was honored, and when he returned to his own town, a breach was made in the walls through which he was to enter, this being a token that a place so honored needed no defending walls. The most famous contemporary Greek poet would immortalize his name in verse. \u2014 Vine, page 65.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Moreover, they [contestants in the Isthmian Games] must keep morally clean, for preceding each contest the contestants were led about the arena by the herald or master of ceremonies while he asked, in a loud voice, whether any spectator could accuse the contestants of any crime, wickedness, slavery or depravity in life and manners. \u2014 Laurin, page 159<\/span><\/h3>\n

obtain it (v.24) \u2014 the prize \u2014 It’s not the competition, but the level of effort Paul is referring to.<\/h3>\n

temperate (v.25) = exercising self-control<\/h3>\n

perishable crown (v.25) \u2014 a wreath of leaves \u2014 liable to decay<\/h3>\n

imperishable (v.25) = amarantinos<\/em> = unfading \u2014 the amaranth flower was a symbol of perpetuity<\/h3>\n

not with uncertainty (v.26) \u2014 without a definite goal<\/h3>\n

beats the air (v.26) \u2014 as a careless boxer<\/h3>\n

discipline my body (v.27) = strike under the eye \u2014 beat black and blue \u2014 combat with the old nature \u2014 Romans 6:13<\/span><\/a>; 12:1<\/span><\/a>; 1 Corinthians 10:31<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

subjection (v.27) \u2014 treat as a slave<\/h3>\n

preached (v.27) = acted as a herald<\/h3>\n

disqualified (v.27) = disapproved as a result of not passing the test \u2014 loss of reward<\/h3>\n

the word [disqualified] is often taken to mean cast off from God’s face and to be lost forever, but this thought is entirely strange to this passage and to the whole of Paul’s thought as well. The word is also an ancient athletic expression and means to be struck off the list as a runner and combatant. By no means does he suggest a loss of salvation and of his standing in Christ, but a loss of service and the consequent reward of grace, which in this whole section is persistently before his mind. \u2014 Bultema, page 79<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24\u00a0Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain\u00a0it. 25\u00a0And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6893,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}