1 CORINTHIANS 9:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. — Paul's discipline: hupōpiazō to sōma mou (I strike a blow to my body, literally 'blacken the eye'). Soulagōgeō (I make it slave) turns the body into an instrument. The fear of adokimos (disqualified, disapproved) in the end motivates present discipline. Even the apostle is accountable to the same athletic standard; complacency invites judgment.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 9:27
“But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.” Here he implies that they are subject to the lust of the belly and give up the reins to it, and under a pretence of perfection fulfil their own greediness; a thought which before also he was travailing to express, when he said, “meats for the belly, and the belly for meats.” 1 Corinthians 6:13 For since both fornication is caused by luxury,…
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