1 Corinthians 9:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Don’t you know that all the runners in the stadium run, but only one gets the prize? So run to win.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Cross References

Psalm 19:5

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but fame and chance happeneth to them all.

Jeremiah 12:5

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of Jordan?

Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 Corinthians 9:13

Know ye not that they which minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they which wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

1 Corinthians 9:26

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

Galatians 2:2

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

Galatians 5:7

Ye were running well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labour in vain.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:18

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

James 1:12

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

Revelation 3:11

I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.