1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air. ²⁷ 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.

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Romans 8:13

for if you live by such a standard, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put a stop to the doings of your lower nature, you will live.

Matthew 7:21-23

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Luke 9:25

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Luke 12:45-47

But if that slave says to himself, my Master is not coming back for a long time, and begins to beat the men and women slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 13:26-27

Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'

Acts 1:25

to take a share in this service as an apostle, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place."

Romans 6:18-19

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is good for me. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not become a slave to anything.

1 Corinthians 8:13

So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

1 Corinthians 9:25

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties;

2 Corinthians 11:27

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

You yourselves must continue testing yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. You must continue standing the test. Do you not know by a growing experience that Jesus Christ is in you? -- provided you stand the test.

Colossians 3:5

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:22

You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and gone astray. They have followed the road that Balaam, the son of Beor, trod, who fell in love with the profits of wrongdoing