1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle

²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; ²⁷ but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

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Romans 8:13

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

Jeremiah 6:30

'Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!

Psalm 50:16

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

Matthew 7:21-23

'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 9:25

for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

Luke 12:45-47

'And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

Luke 13:26-27

then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

Acts 1:25

to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

Romans 6:18-19

and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

1 Corinthians 8:13

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:25

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

2 Timothy 2:22

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

2 Peter 2:15

having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,