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What does 1 Corinthians 9:26 mean?
"I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,"
— 1 Corinthians 9:26 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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