[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

1 Cor. 9:27 Lest that by any means...I myself should be a castaway. Lit., So that...I myself will not be disqualified. Paul was not afraid of losing his salvation: his subject is still Christian liberty. The point is that the believer must discipline himself to avert both being disqualified from Christian ministry, and forfeiting the rewards for such service.

[vmatt]

Paul was not afraid of losing his salvation: his subject is still Christian liberty.

Your missing the point. Paul was stressing that he could still lose out. Only when he stated he was ready to be offered up did he finally allow himself to say he had kept the faith. Only he that endures the suffering in his life to the end of it will be saved. I think it was Shakespere who said "There is many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip."