KNOW ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.... An Enquiry After Happiness in Three Parts - Page 126by Richard Lucas - 1735Full view - About this book
| Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 lehte
...ancient christian, who, when he had full assurance of salvation, said : " I nin, not as uncertainly : So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : 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... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 lehte
...for a corruptible crown but we for an " incorruptible. I therefore so run, hot as uncer" tainly : so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : " but I keep under my body and bring it into subjec" tion, &c." These and similar te*ls do not speak of 'a little exertion.' Prom whatever... | |
| John Wesley - 1811 - 468 lehte
...the same course with the great Apostle of the Gentiles, " I (says he,) so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away."... | |
| Richard Mant - 1812 - 572 lehte
...temperance in the Chriftian race, he immediately fubjoins, " I therefore fb " run, not as uncertainly; fo fight I, not as " one that beateth the air; but I keep under " my body, and bring it into fubjection, left " that by any means, when I have preached " to others, I myfelf fhould be... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 lehte
...conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that, by any means, when I have preached toothers, I myself should be a cast-away."... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 lehte
...says, he hath also an area, , a race, a crown, a triumph. "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 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 cast-away."... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1814 - 518 lehte
...II. p. 286. rnptible crown ; but we, an incorruptible. I, therefore, so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; 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.... | |
| J. Calderbank - 1814 - 256 lehte
...exertions and labours, in the work of salvation, says: I therefore so run, not at uncertainty; so Jight /, not as one that beateth the air: 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.*... | |
| 1815 - 310 lehte
...to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to other's, I myself should become... | |
| Church of England - 1815 - 450 lehte
...to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : 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 cast-away.... | |
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