1 Corinthians 9:27

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

1 Corinthians 9:1 . Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? Having illustrated the legal customs of the jews respecting meats, he introduces another subject, his right to temporal support for his spiritual labours. Some jews, it would seem, ever hostile to Paul, had insinuated that because, for the most part, he had eaten his own bread at Corinth, he had no fair claims on the funds of churches. This point he argues with decision.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 9:27

1 Corinthians 9:27I keep under my body … lest … I myself should be a castaway.Keeping under the bodyThe body is a bad master though it may be a good servant. St. Paul does not wish to be rid of it, but he desires to put it in its proper place.I. It is quite essential to a high morality to have a respectful sense of the dignity of the body. What our Lord Himself was pleased to wear, and wears flow, must, on that very account, be honourable, and His teaching and His wonder-works were addressed as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:27

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Ver. 27. My body ] My body of sin in the whole man, not mine outward man only. If we find the devil practising upon the flesh, the way is not to revile the devil, but to beat the flesh. Give it a blue eye, leave a blot in the face of it, as the word υπωπαιζω signifieth, batter it as those were wont, that tried masteries with plummets of lead; we... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Corinthians 9:27

I keep: 1 Corinthians 9:25, 1 Corinthians 4:11, 1 Corinthians 4:12, 1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 6:13, 1 Corinthians 8:13, Romans 8:13, 2 Corinthians 6:4, 2 Corinthians 6:5, 2 Corinthians 11:27, Colossians 3:5, 2 Timothy 2:22, 1 Peter 2:11 and: Romans 6:18, Romans 6:19 lest: 1 Corinthians 13:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 50:16, Matthew 7:21-Isaiah :, Luke 12:45-2 Corinthians :, Luke 13:26, Luke 13:27, 2 Peter 2:15 a castaway: Jeremiah 6:30, Luke 9:25, Acts 1:25, 2 Corinthians 13:5, 2... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Corinthians 9:27

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.But I keep under my body — By all kinds of self denial.And bring it into subjection — To my spirit and to God. The words are strongly figurative, and signify the mortification of the body of sin, "by an allusion to the natural bodies of those who were bruised or subdued in combat.Lest by any means after having preached — The Greek word means, after... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

PAUL’S FIFTH RESPONSE: TO THE QUESTION AFFECTING HIS APOSTOLICITY, 1 Corinthians 9:1 to 1 Corinthians 10:13 The intense purpose of sacrificing his own rights in regard to eating meat, expressed so vividly in the last chapter, (see note on the closing verse,) suggests to St. Paul a parallel sacrifice of his own apostolic rights which he had thus far practiced through his whole mission. Fully maintaining the right of an apostle to be maintained by the Church, he had abdicated that right in his... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:27

27. I keep under Viewing his body as ready, with its fleshly appetites, (the reverse of the temperate of 1 Corinthians 9:25,) to break the certainty and surety of his running, he beat it to discoloration. Note on Luke 18:5, where the same Greek word is used in a slightly different sense. The term is a pugilistic one; literally, to black-eye one. Paul refers not, as the Romanists pervert the word, to any bodily flagellation, any more than beateth the air refers to a muscular blow. Nor,... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 9:27

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Corinthians 9:27

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Corinthians 9:27

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:27

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