 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 Seiten
...tJiet, exercise, and hardship, that he may be the more capable of exerting himself with success. " Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, " but we an incorruptible." The object of their zealous pursuit, for the attainment of which they submit to sacrifices of personal... | |
 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 Seiten
...run that ye may obtain. 25. And etfery man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things: Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. Phil. iii. 8. I count all tilings but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 Seiten
...language of an eminent 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 Seiten
...it 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 Seiten
...insecure, and even his salvation in danger, without this constant self-denial. " So run I, (says he), not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." By which he plainly teaches us, that he who does not thus run, who does not thus deny himself daily,... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1812 - 572 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 Seiten
...run, that ye may obtain. 25 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. PARAPHRASE. man, I yet subject myself to every one, to the end lhat 20 I may make the more converts... | |
 | 1812 - 292 Seiten
...Christian race, represents it by those who strove for the mastery in the Grecian games, and says, " Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.'' And this crown he more particularly explains in the following words, speaking to those to whom he and... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 Seiten
...man a year, and even worshipping him during that time, and then sacrificing him. No. 520. — ix. 25. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.] It is well known, that the crown in the Olympic games, sacred to Jupiter, was 4 of wild-olive ; in... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 Seiten
...he, "do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I,...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."... | |
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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. 
