1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: ²⁷ But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

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Romans 8:13

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Jeremiah 6:30

They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.

Psalm 50:16

And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth?

Matthew 7:21-23

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

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?

Luke 12:45-47

And if that servant should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come; and should begin to strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated;

Luke 13:26-27

Then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank before thee, and thou didst teach in our streets.

Acts 1:25

To take the lot of this service and sending forth, from which Judas passed by, to go to his own place.

Romans 6:18-19

And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother.

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

2 Corinthians 11:27

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

Colossians 3:5

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

2 Timothy 2:22

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:15

Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;