1 Corinthians 9:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

Common English Bible

²⁶ So now this is how I run—not without a clear goal in sight. I fight like a boxer in the ring, not like someone who is shadowboxing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:

1 Corinthians 9:26 Cross References

Matthew 11:12

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.

Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

1 Corinthians 14:9

So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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.

Ephesians 6:12

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Colossians 1:29

whereunto I labour also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 2:5

And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

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,

Hebrews 4:1

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

1 Peter 5:1

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

2 Peter 1:10

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

Judges 3:2

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;