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1 Corinthians 9:26

James Moffatt - New Testament

Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air —

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So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),

Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!

From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it.

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,




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