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NASB | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Now every athlete who [goes into training and] competes in the games is disciplined and exercises self-control in all things. They do it to win a crown that withers, but we [do it to receive] an imperishable [crown that cannot wither]. |
Subject: self control / spirit control |
Bible Note: Bub: You wrote: "The same person, Paul, said everyone of these things…….please explain to me how do you reconcile both lists?" My friend, you have hit on the very crux of the matter. Either Paul must be contradicting himself, or we have to look closer at what he is trying to say. One of the problems is that you have taken these points made by Paul out of their contexts. For example, he can say that "the doers of the Law will be justified" (Romans 2:13) and "a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 2:16) simply because of Paul's point that NO ONE is a doer of the law. Our fallen nature makes us incapable of submitting to God's law (Romans 8:7). Romans 3:10-18 gives us a very clear view of what man is like in relation to God's law, and the picture is not pretty. This brings up another interesting point: if the "law" that Paul has in view here is the sacrificial and ceremonial rituals, how is the "mind set on the flesh" incapable of submitting to these? The Pharisee, I am sure, did an excellent job of making sure every jot and tittle of ritual washings and feast days and sacrifices were done to the letter, and yet Jesus called them children of the devil. Paul clearly has in mind the moral commandments of God here when talking about loving the law and upholding God's law. Paul does not love the animal sacrifices; he loves the commandment to have no other gods before YHWH and the commandment to love ones neighbor as oneself and the commandment to refrain from stealing. As he clearly says, from these works no one will be justified, because no one but Christ my representative has kept the Law perfectly, and it is through faith in his perfect obedience to the Law and his once-for-all substitutionary death for my sins against God's law that I am declared righteous before the Father. |