1 Corinthians 9:24
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
In context
22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
25 Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
26 Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
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1 Corinthians 9:24 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- KJV King James Version
- Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- have ye not known that those running in a race — all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.