1 Corinthians 9:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Striveth

Hebrews 12:4

Temperate

But

General references

Luke 22:29

Bible References

Striveth

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

Temperate

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

But

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.

And around the throne are thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;

General references

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,