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1 Corinthians 9:26
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1 Corinthians 9:26
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
26I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre:
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1 Corinthians 9:26
To move swiftly on foot; to flow, spread, proceed, continue, or carry out a course.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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uncertainly
Without a definite course or aim; not running or fighting aimlessly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A battle, struggle, or contest; as a verb, to contend.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
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Open the full verse study5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
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Open the full verse study21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Open the full verse study29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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Open the full verse study12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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Open the full verse study24¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Open the full verse study1THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
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Open the full verse study12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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Open the full verse study9So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
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Open the full verse study1FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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Open the full verse study8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Open the full verse study1LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
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Open the full verse study12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
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