1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: ²⁷ but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

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Romans 8:13

For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

Matthew 7:21-23

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

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, gaining the whole world, and losing or forfeiting himself?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that servant may say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming, and may begin to smite the servants and handmaidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunken;

Luke 13:26-27

Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst preach in our streets.

Acts 1:25

to receive the place of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas departed to go into his own place.

Romans 6:18-19

but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp,

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

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

1 Corinthians 8:13

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

1 Corinthians 9:25

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Prove your own selves, if you are in the faith; examine yourselves; whether do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless indeed you are reprobates.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

2 Timothy 2:22

But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

2 Peter 2:15

leaving the straight way, they have wandered off, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of iniquity; and had the conviction of his own conscience: