Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Using Sporting Examples Gems
We investigate Paul's use of sporting examples in these five Gems based on events in the Corinthian or the Isthmian Games.
Bible Gem 390 – Gaining the prize (1 Cor 9:24-25)
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Bible Gem 391 – Running (1 Cor 9:24)
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Bible Gem 392 – Boxing, Beating the Air (1 Cor 9:26b)
1 Corinthians 9:26 (NLT) I am not just shadowboxing. (ESV) I do not box as one beating the air. (GNB) that is why I am like a boxer who does not waste his punches. (EMTV) Therefore I run thus: not as without a goal, thus …
Bible Gem 393 – The Hidden Sport: Keeping the body suppressed (1 Cor 9:27)
I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:27 So what is the other sport that is buried a little deeper? Have you worked …