1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air. ²⁷ but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

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Romans 8:13

for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

Matthew 7:21-23

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 9:25

what advantage is it for a man to have gain'd the whole world, if he himself runs into utter loss and ruin?

Luke 12:45-47

but if the servant should say within himself, my master delays his return; and fall a beating his fellow-servants, indulging himself in eating and drinking to excess.

Luke 13:26-27

then you will say, we have eat, and drank with you, and you have taught in our streets.

Acts 1:25

that he may be admitted to this apostolick ministry which Judas abandoned, to go to his own place."

Romans 6:18-19

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any.

1 Corinthians 8:13

wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

1 Corinthians 9:25

every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

For tho' I should speak with the eloquence of men, and of angels, and not have social affection, I should be like sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

2 Corinthians 11:27

expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof; are you so little acquainted with yourselves, as not to know whether Jesus Christ be in you? but if you are destitute of proofs,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

2 Timothy 2:22

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

1 Peter 2:11

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

2 Peter 2:15

and are gone astray to follow the practices of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;