1 Corinthians 9:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, {G4458} after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ ὑπωπιάζω μου τὸ σῶμα, καὶ δουλαγωγῶ: μή πως, ἄλλοις κηρύξας, αὐτὸς ἀδόκιμος γένωμαι.

Transliteration

But I hypōpiazō of me the sōma, and doulagōgō: lest, to others having kēryxas, myself adokimos I might genōmai.

Grammar Details

• *hypōpiazō*: present indicative, 1st person singular - discipline severely/buffet
• *sōma*: accusative, neuter, singular - body
• *doulagōgō*: present indicative, 1st person singular - bring into slavery/subjection
• *kēryxas*: aorist participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having preached/proclaimed
• *adokimos*: nominative, masculine, singular - disqualified/rejected
• *genōmai*: aorist subjunctive, 1st person singular - might become

Word Meanings

• *hypōpiazō*: discipline severely/buffet/treat roughly/subdue
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *doulagōgō*: bring into slavery/subjection/make a slave
• *kēryxas*: having preached/having proclaimed/having announced
• *adokimos*: disqualified/rejected/unapproved/castaway
• *genōmai*: might become/might be/should be

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat {G3756} no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
• 2 Cor 13:5-6 : 5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be {G5100} reprobate. 6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they {G3303} [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
• Rom 6:18-19 : 18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
• 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 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 any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Luke 9:25 : 25 For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
• Ps 50:16 : 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
• Jer 6:30 : 30 Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
• 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
• 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
• Luke 12:45-47 : 45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, {G4328} and in an hour when he {G1097} knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint {G5087} his portion with the unfaithful. 47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;
• Luke 13:26-27 : 26 then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets; 27 and he shall say, I tell you, I know {G5209} not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
• 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
• 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
• 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.