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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: Paul never spoke NEGATIVELY about the "law." He understood it perfectly: its intended purposes, and what it is not able to do. Not once, however, does he speak ill of the Law. With all due respect, it is you who does not "get it." You make the opposite mistake of those who say that the law of God has no use for the Christian, in that you want to make the commands and ordinances tied solely to the Old Covenant applicable to those who were never part of that covenant community. Both views are in error by failing to see that God's moral commandments regarding righteous behavior, while contained in the Law of Moses, transcend the Law as well. As such, you are arguing past each other, and neither one of you can address my support of God's moral law and the acknowledgement that the sacrificial and ceremonial laws have passed away with the Old Covenant. Neither your view nor the antinomian view is supported by the whole counsel of God. --Joe! |