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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Lest

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

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.

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

A castaway

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.

General references

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.