 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 568 pages
...common exercises and contests of strength and activity, every man, that striveth for the mastery, it temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible*. This and every passage of Scripture, which admonishes tofae youthful lusts ^, they must frequently... | |
 | Church of England - 1825 - 432 pages
...that ye may obtain. 'd every 'san that strivcth an incorruptible. I so nm, not as unfor the mattery is temperate in all things: now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown. but we — ; -!tl ' therefore certainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 pages
...indeed too often the case. But this leads me, thirdly, to consider the value of the prize proposed. " Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible." The aptness of the comparison between the two rewards will appear in a still stronger point of view,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...Grecian Antiq. vol. i, p. 445, tt seq. of the apostle, but by no means equals it in force and beauty : " Now they do it, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an uncorruptible." The Christian is called to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold of eternal... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 488 pages
...into subjection. A Newmarket.Groom will sweat himself thin, that he may be fit for his office : JVow they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we, an incorruptible. is just come from college. He has a refined. accurate, sensible mind. Some of our friends wish to get... | |
 | Bill McCracken - 2003 - 194 pages
...for the mastery is temperate [to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity): can(not) contain, be 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... | |
 | Charles Grandison Finney - 2003 - 1234 pages
...one receiveth 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." He then adds, verse 26 and 27, "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I, not as one that... | |
 | Betty Miller - 2003 - 108 pages
...one receiveth 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 as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under... | |
 | Ernest Verity - 2003 - 618 pages
...the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth (who competes) tor the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. Paul expressed his confident hope in 2 Timothy 4:8, Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,... | |
 | Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 225 pages
...one receiveth 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.' 76. Letters to Bridges (30 July 1887), 256. 77. Walter E. Houghton discusses intellectual, moral, religious,... | |
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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. 
