 | 1818 - 424 pages
...hut one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man iat striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncerliinly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep under... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 pages
...temperance ? The apostle Paul will best explain this : — " 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 means are only to be considered as valuable in proportion as they are instrumental in effecting... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully". 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. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. i\Tow they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep under... | |
 | 1820 - 310 pages
...as inflexibly for his Saviour, as a savage for the sake of his personal or national honour ? — " They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible." " Go to the Ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise." — Go to the miser and the savage,... | |
 | Alexander Cruden - 1830 - 888 pages
...h u<etl likewise for reward, because c<nt* yuerors in the public games itere crowned, 1 Cor. 9. S5, They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible : that is, the wrestlers in those Barnes which are practised among you, contend in order to obtain... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...run all, but one receiveth the prize ? Even in these races, 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. I, therefore, so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...but one receivelh the prize? So run that ye may obtain. 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. I therefore so run, not us uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pages
...the Olympic games drew nigh, the Athletae who were to appear in them were kept to double exercise. temperate in all things: Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. *Tertullian uses the same thought to encourage the martyrs. He makes a comparison from what the hopes... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 pages
...ever he will be crowned"I. And this argument the apostle intimated : " He that striveth for masteries is temperate in all things : now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we, an incorruptible '." 5. It is by a certain consequence the greatest impediment in the world to martyrdom : that being... | |
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Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. 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... 
