1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air; ²⁷ 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.

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Romans 8:13

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

Matthew 7:21-23

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit himself?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that servant say in his heart, My lord is long in coming; and begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and be drunken,

Luke 13:26-27

then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets.

Acts 1:25

to take the part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell away, that he might go to his own place.

Romans 6:18-19

and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but as Gods ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 11:27

by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless ye are unapproved?

Colossians 3:5

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, 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

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:15

they have forsaken the right way, and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,