 | 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... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1822 - 454 pages
...every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate * Ler. xix. 2. t Is, riii. 20. 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 602 pages
...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 incorruptibler." 5. It is by a certain consequence the greatest impediment in the world to martyrdom... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 466 pages
...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. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 27 But I keej)... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 474 pages
...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. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 27 But I keep... | |
 | Church of England - 1823 - 706 pages
...So run that ye may obtain, And every man that striveth for the mastery is températe 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... | |
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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... 
