1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ Therefore I do not run without a definite goal; I do not flail around like one beating the air [just shadow boxing]. ²⁷ But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service].

From God

Good News

Preached the Gospel

Herald

No

Romans 8:13

for if you are living according to the [impulses of the] flesh, you are going to die. But if [you are living] by the [power of the Holy] Spirit you are habitually putting to death the sinful deeds of the body, you will [really] live forever.

Jeremiah 6:30

They call them rejected silver [only dross, without value],
Because the Lord has rejected them.

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite My statutes
Or to take My covenant on your lips?

Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], and loses or forfeits himself?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking his time in coming,’ and begins to beat the servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 13:26-27

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’;

Acts 1:25

to occupy this ministry and apostleship which Judas left to go to his own place [of evil].”

Romans 6:18-19

And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness [of conformity to God’s will and purpose].

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are continually poorly dressed, and we are roughly treated, and wander homeless.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me].

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if [my eating a certain] food causes my brother to stumble (sin), I will not eat [such] meat ever again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

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].

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [for others growing out of God’s love for me], then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction].

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but we commend ourselves in every way as servants of God: in great endurance, in sufferings, in hardships, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and hardship, often unable to sleep, in hunger and thirst, often [driven to] fasting [for lack of food], in cold and exposure [without adequate clothing].

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit?

Colossians 3:5

So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].

2 Timothy 2:22

Run away from youthful lusts—pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those [believers] who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:15

Abandoning the straight road [that is, the right way to live], they have gone astray; they have followed the way of [the false teacher] Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness;