Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 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.
Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them 'rejected silver,' because the LORD has rejected them."
Psalm 50:16
But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 9:25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Luke 12:45-47
But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk,
Luke 13:26-27
Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and office of apostle from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
Romans 6:18-19
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 6:12-13
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or do you not know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you??unless indeed you are disqualified.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2 Peter 2:15
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;