1 Corinthians 9:27
But I tame my body, and bryng it into subiection, lest by any meanes, that when I haue preached to other, I my selfe shoulde be a castaway.
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- Rom 8:13 : 13 For if ye liue after ye fleshe, ye shall dye: But if ye through the spirite, do mortifie the deedes of the body, ye shall lyue.
- 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meate offend my brother, I wyll eate no fleshe whyle the worlde standeth, lest I shoulde offende my brother.
- 2 Cor 13:5-6 : 5 Examine your selues, whether ye are in the fayth: Proue your owne selues. Knowe ye not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christe is in you? except ye be reprobates. 6 I trust ye shal knowe that we are not reprobates.
- Col 3:5 : 5 Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euyll concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is worshippyng of images:
- 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 Euery man that proueth maisteries, abstayneth from all thynges, and they do it to obtayne a crowne that shall perishe: but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne.
- Rom 6:18-19 : 18 Being then made free fro sinne, ye are become ye seruauntes of ryghteousnesse. 19 I speake after the maner of men, because of the infirmitie of your fleshe. As ye haue geuen your members seruauntes to vncleannesse and iniquitie, vnto iniquitie: euen so nowe geue your members seruauntes to righteousnesse, vnto holynesse.
- 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 All thinges are lawfull vnto me, but al thinges are not profitable: Al things are lawfull vnto me, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any. 13 Meates are ordeyned for the belly, and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the body is not for fornication: but for the Lorde, and the Lorde for the body.
- 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule:
- 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Lustes of youth auoyde, but folowe ryghteousnesse, fayth, loue, peace, with them that call on the Lorde out of a pure heart.
- Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not euery one, that sayeth vnto me Lorde, Lorde, shall enter into the kyngdome of heauen: but he that doeth the wyll of my father, which is in heauen. 22 Many wyll say to me in that day, Lorde Lorde, haue we not prophesied thorowe thy name? and thorowe thy name haue cast out deuyls? & done many great workes thorowe thy name? 23 And then wyll I confesse vnto them, I neuer knewe you: Depart from me, ye that worke iniquitie.
- Luke 9:25 : 25 For what auauntageth it a man yf he wynne the whole worlde, and lose hym selfe, or runne in daunger of hym selfe?
- Ps 50:16 : 16 But the Lorde sayd vnto the vngodly: why doest thou preache my lawes, and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth?
- Jer 6:30 : 30 Therefore do they call them naughtie siluer, because the Lorde hath cast them out.
- 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye, and are gone astray, folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse:
- 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
- Luke 12:45-47 : 45 But & yf that seruaut say in his heart, my lorde wyll deferre his commyng, and shall begyn to smyte the seruauntes and maydens, and to eate and drynke, and to be dronken, 46 The Lord of that seruaunt wyll come in a day when he thynketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware, and wyll hewe hym in peeces, and geue hym his portion with the vnbeleuers. 47 And the seruaunt that knewe his maisters wyll, and prepared not hym selfe, neither dyd accordyng to his wyll, shalbe beaten with many strypes.
- Luke 13:26-27 : 26 Then shall ye begyn to say: We haue eaten and dronken in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streates. 27 And he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not, whence ye are: depart from me all ye that worke iniquitie.
- 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels, and haue not loue, I am as soundyng brasse, or as a tincklyng Cimball: 2 And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng. 3 And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng.
- 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in all thynges let vs behaue our selues as ye ministers of God, in much pacience, in afflictions, in necessities, in anguisshes, 5 In stripes, in prisonmentes, in strifes, in labours,
- 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,
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21 To them that are without lawe, become as though I were without lawe, (when I was not without law as parteyning to the lawe of God, but in the lawe of Christe) to winne them that are without lawe.
22 To the weake became I as weake, that I might winne the weake. I am made all thinges to all men, that I might at the least way saue some.
23 And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.
24 Perceaue ye not howe that they which run in a race, run all, but one receaueth the rewarde? So run that ye may obtayne.
25 Euery man that proueth maisteries, abstayneth from all thynges, and they do it to obtayne a crowne that shall perishe: but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne.
26 I therfore so run, not as at an vncertayne thing: So fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.
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15 But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.
16 For if I preache the Gospell, I haue nothyng to reioyce of: for necessitie is layde vpon me. But wo is vnto me if I preache not the Gospell.
17 For if I do it with a good wil, I haue a reward: but if I do it against my wil, the dispensatio is committed vnto me.
18 What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruaunt vnto all men, that I might win the mo.
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12 All thinges are lawfull vnto me, but al thinges are not profitable: Al things are lawfull vnto me, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any.
13 Meates are ordeyned for the belly, and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the body is not for fornication: but for the Lorde, and the Lorde for the body.
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11 If by any meanes, I myght attayne vnto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had alredy attayned, either were alredy perfect: but I folowe, yf that I may comprehende, wherein also I am comprehended of Christe Iesus.
13 Brethren I count not my selfe as yet that I haue attained: but this one thing I say I forget those thinges which are behynde, and endeuour my selfe vnto those thynges which are before,
14 And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus.
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5 And if a man also wrestle, yet is he not crowned except he wrestle lawfullie.
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14 God forbyd that I shoulde reioyce, but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christe, wherby the world is crucified vnto me, and I vnto the worlde.
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30 Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare in me.
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7 I haue fought a good fyght, I haue fulfylled my course, I haue kept ye faith.
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7 But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me, those I counted losse for Christes sake.
8 Yea, I thynke all thynges but losse, for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christe Iesus my Lorde: For whom I haue counted all thyng losse, & do iudge the but vile, that I may winne Christe,
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5 Of such a man wyll I glorie, yet of my selfe wyll I not glorie, but in myne infirmities.
6 For though I woulde desire to glorie, I shall not be a foole, for I wyll say the trueth: but I nowe refrayne, lest any man shoulde thynke of me, aboue that which he seeth me to be, or yt he heareth of me.
7 And lest I shoulde be exalted out of measure through the aboundaunce of the reuelations, there was geuen vnto me a pricke to the fleshe, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
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29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.
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23 But I see another lawe in my members, rebellyng agaynst the lawe of my mynde, and subduyng me vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.
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29 Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?
30 If I must needes glory, I wyll glory of the thynges that concerne myne infirmities.
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2 I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe.
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18 For yf I builde agayne the thynges which I destroyed, then make I my selfe a trespasser.
19 For I, through the lawe, am dead to the lawe, that I myght lyue vnto God: I am crucified with Christe.
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15 Knowe ye not that your bodies are the members of Christe? Shall I then take the members of Christe, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbyd.
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10 Therfore write I these thynges beyng absent, lest when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, accordyng to the power which the Lorde hath geuen me to edification, and not to destruction.
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9 For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Churche of God.
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24 But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.
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23 Which thynges haue a shewe of wisdome, in superstition & humblenesse of mynde, and in hurtyng of the body, not in any honour to the satisfiyng of ye flesh.
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8 For bodyly exercise profiteth litle: but godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges, hauing promise of the lyfe that is nowe, and of that which is to come.
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9 Lest I should seeme as though I wet about to make you afrayde by letters.
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5 Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.
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4 Though I might also haue confidence in the fleshe. If any other man thinketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the fleshe, more I:
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13 Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first:
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17 From hencefoorth, let no man put me to busynesse: For I beare in my body the markes of the Lorde Iesus.
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10 We alwayes beare about in the body the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesus myght also appeare in our bodie.
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16 Holdyng fast the worde of lyfe, to my reioycyng in the day of Christe that I haue not runne in vayne, neither haue laboured in vayne.
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18 Flee fornication. Euery synne that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne body.
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12 For the which cause I also suffer these thynges. Neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and I am perswaded that he is able to kepe that which I haue committed to hym, agaynst that day.
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6 And these thynges brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto my selfe, and to Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man conceaue in mynde aboue that whiche is written, that one swell not agaynst another for any mans cause.
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20 Accordyng to my expectation, and my hope, yt in nothyng I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all boldnesse, as alwayes, so now also, Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.