1 Corinthians 9:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I therfore so run, not as at an vncertayne thing: So fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

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  • Phil 1:21 : 21 For Christe is to me lyfe, and death is to me aduantage.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these thynges. Neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and I am perswaded that he is able to kepe that which I haue committed to hym, agaynst that day.
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherfore brethren, geue the more diligence for to make your callyng and election sure: For yf ye do such thynges, ye shall neuer fall.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And if a man also wrestle, yet is he not crowned except he wrestle lawfullie.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let vs feare therfore, lest at any tyme, by forsakyng the promise of entryng into his reste, any of you shoulde be defrauded.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 From the dayes of Iohn the Baptist vntyll nowe, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, & the violent plucke it vnto them.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 Stryue to enter in at the strayte gate: for many I say vnto you, wyll seke to enter in, and shall not be able.
  • 1 Cor 14:9 : 9 Euen so lykewyse, when ye speake with tongues, except ye speake wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstande what is spoken? For ye shall speake into the ayer.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.
  • Eph 6:12 : 12 For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly places.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you, I exhort, whiche am also an elder, & a wytnesse of the afflictions of Christe, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:

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    22To the weake became I as weake, that I might winne the weake. I am made all thinges to all men, that I might at the least way saue some.

    23And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.

    24Perceaue ye not howe that they which run in a race, run all, but one receaueth the rewarde? So run that ye may obtayne.

    25Euery man that proueth maisteries, abstayneth from all thynges, and they do it to obtayne a crowne that shall perishe: but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I tame my body, and bryng it into subiection, lest by any meanes, that when I haue preached to other, I my selfe shoulde be a castaway.

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    3Thou therfore suffer afflictions as a good souldier of Iesus Christe.

    4No man that warreth, entangleth hym selfe with thaffayres of this lyfe, that he may please hym which hath chosen hym to be a souldier.

    5And if a man also wrestle, yet is he not crowned except he wrestle lawfullie.

    6The labouryng husbandman, must first be partaker of the fruites.

  • 2 Tim 4:7-8
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    7I haue fought a good fyght, I haue fulfylled my course, I haue kept ye faith.

    8Hencefoorth there is layde vp for me a crowne of ryghteousnesse, which the Lorde, the ryghteous iudge, shall geue me at that day: not to me only, but vnto the also yt haue loued his appearyng.

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    11If by any meanes, I myght attayne vnto the resurrection of the dead.

    12Not as though I had alredy attayned, either were alredy perfect: but I folowe, yf that I may comprehende, wherein also I am comprehended of Christe Iesus.

    13Brethren I count not my selfe as yet that I haue attained: but this one thing I say I forget those thinges which are behynde, and endeuour my selfe vnto those thynges which are before,

    14And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16Holdyng fast the worde of lyfe, to my reioycyng in the day of Christe that I haue not runne in vayne, neither haue laboured in vayne.

  • Col 1:29
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    29Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.

  • 1 Tim 6:12
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    12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hand on eternall lyfe, wherevnto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

  • Heb 12:1
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    1Wherfore, seyng that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, lay away all that presseth downe, & the sinne that hangeth so fast on, let vs run with patience vnto the battayle that is set before vs:

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    2I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe.

    3For though we walke in the fleshe, yet we do not warre according to ye flesh.

    4For the weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but myghtie through God, to cast downe strong holdes,

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    12For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly places.

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    15But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.

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    58Therfore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmouable, alwayes riche in the worke of the Lorde, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.

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    31By our reioycyng which I haue in Christe Iesu our Lorde, I dye dayly.

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    14Of these thynges put them in remembraunce, testifie before the Lorde, that they striue not about wordes to no profite, but to the peruertyng of ye hearers.

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    9We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe, but we perisshe not.

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    24But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

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    6And these thynges brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto my selfe, and to Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man conceaue in mynde aboue that whiche is written, that one swell not agaynst another for any mans cause.

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    9Let vs not be weery in well doyng: for in due season we shall reape, yf we faynt not.

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    5Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.

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    17That I speake, I speake it not after the Lorde: but as it were foolishly, in this maner of boastyng.

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    13I can do all thynges through Christe, which strengtheneth me.

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    8And also yf the trumpe geue an vncertayne sounde, who shall prepare him selfe to the warre?

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    22But if I lyue in the fleshe, this (is) the fruite of my labour, and what I shall chose, I wote not.

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    17And take the helmet of saluation, and the sworde of the spirite, whiche is the worde of God.