(1 Cor. 9:27)
Translated also “reprobate” (2 Cor. 13:5-7), &c., and “rejected” (Heb. 6:8). It means one finally rejected by God. Paul’s use of it is not as having any such fear himself, but as a warning to others (especially at Corinth) to whom eloquence was all, and Christian morality very little. Paul frequently speaks in this way, as he explains in 1 Cor. 4:6.