1 Corinthians 9:27

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Summary

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

I keep

And

Romans 6:18

Lest

A castaway

General references

Proverbs 23:2

Bible References

I keep

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

but in everything commending ourselves as

servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and

exposure.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

And

and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Lest

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

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

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

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

forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

A castaway

They call them rejected silver,

Because the Lord has rejected them.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you

fail the test?

General references

And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.