And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, 'The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

We must not tempt the Lord [that is, test His patience, question His purpose or exploit His goodness], as some of them did—and they were killed by serpents.

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ.

For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

If they all made up one member, what would become of the body?

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

[it] does not behave dishonorably, [it] {is not selfish}, [it] does not become angry, [it] does not keep a record of wrongs,

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

But, if, all, be prophesying, - and there come in one who is unbelieving or unskilled, he is convicted by all, he is searched by all, the secrets of his heart, become manifest,

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

and if they desire to have information about any point, let them consult their husbands at home: for it does not become women to ask questions in the church.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.

Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

Now I say this, believers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit nor be part of the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (mortal) inherit the imperishable (immortal).

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,

For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

For we write you nothing other than what you read and understand [there is no double meaning in what we say]. And I hope you will [accurately] understand [divine things] until the end;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him.

So instead, you people should [now] forgive and comfort him, in order that such a person does not become overwhelmed with extreme grief.

To lost people [we become] a smell of death [i.e., we bring condemnation to people who reject our message]; to saved people [we become] a fragrance of life [i.e., we bring salvation to people who accept our message]. And who is adequate to [accomplish] such tasks?

But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as we received mercy [from God, granting us salvation, opportunities, and blessings], we do not get discouraged nor lose our motivation.

Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Him who knew no sin he made to be'sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:

Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?

And will become your Father, and, ye, shall become my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [has become known] throughout all the churches.

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you might not become vain in this respect, but that ye might be ready, as I had said:

In every way you will grow richer and become even more generous, and this will cause others to give thanks to God because of us,

And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our Brothers, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.

To boast indeed does not become me: but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

To keep me from becoming conceited because of the exceptional nature of these revelations, a thorn was given to me and placed in my body. It was Satan's messenger to keep on tormenting me so that I would not become conceited.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

So, let it be [said] that I did not become a burden to you. But being a clever person, [some are saying] that I took you in by trickery. [Note: Paul is saying that even though he took no financial support from the church, they are accusing him of taking financial advantage of them through other people].

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

Then three years later I did go up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas (Peter), and I stayed with him fifteen days.

But they did not even require that Titus, a Greek [i.e., a Gentile] who was with me, become circumcised.

But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" ??15 We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

For if I try to build up again what I had already destroyed [i.e., by returning to depend on compliance with the law of Moses to become right with God, after having rejected this system by trusting in Christ to save me], I would certainly be guilty of sin.

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

[In doing this] I am not trying to disregard God's unearned favor, for if a person could become right with God by [perfect obedience to the requirements of] the law of Moses, then Christ died for nothing.

Are you so foolish [as to believe that after] having begun [your Christian lives] through [the power of] the Holy Spirit, you can [now] become complete by [living according to your human strength]?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But now that faith [in Christ] has become available, we are no longer in need of this "transportation to school."

so that He could buy back [from Satan] those who were [still] under [obligation to] the law of Moses, and that we could become adopted children.

Now, however, since you have come to know [the true] God [through personal experience], or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elemental principles [of religions and philosophies], to which you want to be enslaved all over again?

I beseech you, brethren, become as I am , for I also am become as ye are . Ye did me no wrong:

What then has become of that sense of blessing and the joy that you once had [from your salvation and your relationship with Christ]? For I testify of you that, if possible, you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me [to replace mine].

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am again deeply pained [as a woman in childbirth] over your [spiritual] condition, until [the life of] Christ becomes formed in your character.

Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!

And again I testify to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is under obligation to keep the whole law.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Brothers, if any one of you is overwhelmed by a [particular] sin, those of you who are spiritually minded should [attempt to] restore such a person [to faithfulness]. But do it in a gentle way, being very careful that you yourself do not become tempted [to get involved in any sin].

And we should not become tired of doing good things, for eventually we will receive [never ending life] if we do not give up.

For not even do they who become circumcised themselves keep the Law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world.

He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,

but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

in whom the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord;

in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

So I ask you not to lose heart at my sufferings on your behalf, for they are your glory and honor.

[I pray] that, according to God's glorious abundance, He would empower you to become [spiritually] strong through His Holy Spirit in your inner person,

I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea,

and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

with all humility [forsaking self-righteousness], and gentleness [maintaining self-control], with patience, bearing with one another in [unselfish] love.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to become mature, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

And they, [the ungodly in their spiritual apathy], having become callous and unfeeling, have given themselves over [as prey] to unbridled sensuality, eagerly craving the practice of every kind of impurity [that their desires may demand].

at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus.