25But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.


In Context

22 I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

23 And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

24 Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

25 But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

1 Corinthians 9:25 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:25And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:25And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:25And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:25And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:25And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:25and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:25And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.