1 Corinthians 14:9
Greek Text— 1 Corinthians 14:9So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
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Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.