Parallel Verses
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.
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 King James verseion
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.
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 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,
Jeremiah 6:30
Therefore shall they be called reprobate silver, because the LORD hath cast them out."
Psalm 50:16
But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth,
Matthew 7:21-23
"Not all they that say unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth my father's will which is in heaven.
Luke 9:25
For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?
Luke 12:45-47
But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken:
Luke 13:26-27
Then shall ye begin to say, 'We have eaten, and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.'
Acts 1:25
that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."
Romans 6:18-19
Ye are then made free from sin, and are become the servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even unto this day we hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted with fists, and have no certain dwelling place,
1 Corinthians 6:12-13
All things are lawful unto me: but all things are not profitable. I may do all things: but I will be brought under no man's power.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels, and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as a tinkling cymbal.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
but in all things let us behave ourselves as the ministers of God. In much patience, in afflictions, in necessity, in anguish,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
Prove yourselves whether ye are in the faith or not. Examine your own selves: know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be castaways?
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:
2 Timothy 2:22
Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,
2 Peter 2:15
and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness: