1 Corinthians 9:24
Good News Translation
Surely you know that many runners take part in a race, but only one of them wins the prize. Run, then, in such a way as to win the prize.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.

Contemporary English Version
You know that many runners enter a race, and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win!

New American Bible
Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

they.

Hosea 12:10 And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

run in.

Psalm 19:5 He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom coming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?

so run.

1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.

Galatians 2:2 And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.

Galatians 5:7 You did run well. What hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 3:14 I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. . . .

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Context
Run Your Race to Win
23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof. 24Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain. 25And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.…
Cross References
Romans 6:16
Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

1 Corinthians 9:13
Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

1 Corinthians 9:23
And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

Galatians 2:2
And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.

Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:14
I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:18
Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh:

2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

Hebrews 12:1
And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

1 Corinthians 9:23
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