1 Corinthians 9:27
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.
Romans 8:13
for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Matthew 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 9:25
"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
Luke 12:45-47
"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,
Luke 13:26-27
"Then you will begin saying, 'But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.'
Acts 1:25
"in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."
Romans 6:18-19
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.
1 Corinthians 6:12-13
"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?
Colossians 3:5
So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.
1 Peter 2:11
I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.
2 Peter 2:15
They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.