1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; ²⁷ but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

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Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

Matthew 7:21-23

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begins to beat the younger servants, and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

Luke 13:26-27

then you will say, We eat and drank in your presence, and you have taught in our streets;

Acts 1:25

to take the place of this service and apostleship from which Judas fell by transgression to go to his place.

Romans 6:18-19

and having become free from sin you served righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

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

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

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

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 11:27

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

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves; or know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are reprobates?

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

2 Timothy 2:22

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

2 Peter 2:15

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,