Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.
New American Standard Bible
but I
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
International Standard Version
No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.
A Conservative Version
But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.
American Standard Version
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Amplified
But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service].
An Understandable Version
But I work out and get my body in shape [i.e., spiritually], so that after preaching to other people, I myself do not become disqualified [i.e., for winning the prize from God. See verse 24].
Anderson New Testament
but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Bible in Basic English
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
Common New Testament
But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Daniel Mace New Testament
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.
Darby Translation
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
Godbey New Testament
but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
Goodspeed New Testament
But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.
John Wesley New Testament
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should become a reprobate.
Julia Smith Translation
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.
King James 2000
But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Montgomery New Testament
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.
NET Bible
Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
New Heart English Bible
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Noyes New Testament
but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.
Sawyer New Testament
but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.
The Emphasized Bible
But am beating my body under, and leading it captive, lest, by any means, - unto others, having proclaimed, the contest , I myself, should be rejected.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.
Twentieth Century New Testament
No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.
Webster
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.
Weymouth New Testament
but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
Williams New Testament
But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.
World English Bible
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Worrell New Testament
But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Worsley New Testament
but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Youngs Literal Translation
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
Themes
Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
Christian conduct » Controlling the body
Ministers » Should be » Self-denying
The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Training of combatants
Self-denial » Danger of neglecting
Self-denial » Necessary » To the triumph of saints
Stoicism » Paul teaches » That the body must be kept under subjection
Temperance » In relation to food in relation to speech » Appetites to be restrained
War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With self-denial
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References
Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
26 So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air. 27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.
Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.
Psalm 50:16
But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?
Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.
Luke 9:25
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?
Luke 12:45-47
But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk,
Luke 13:26-27
then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets.
Acts 1:25
to take the share of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell, to go to his own place.
Romans 6:18-19
Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 6:12-13
All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 11:27
I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
2 Peter 2:15
who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,