1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. ²⁷ But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

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Romans 8:13

for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

Jeremiah 6:30

Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.

Psalm 50:16

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

Matthew 7:21-23

Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 9:25

For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

Luke 13:26-27

then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

Acts 1:25

to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.

Romans 6:18-19

Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

1 Corinthians 9:25

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:22

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:15

having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;