1 Corinthians 9:27

Geneva Bible (1560)

But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

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  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.
  • 2 Cor 13:5-6 : 5 Proue your selues whether ye are in the faith: examine your selues: knowe yee not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall knowe that wee are not reprobates.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Mortifie therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, vncleannes, the inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnes which is idolatrie.
  • 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth fro all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.
  • Rom 6:18-19 : 18 Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse. 19 I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing. 13 Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also from the lustes of youth, and follow after righteousnes, faith, loue, and peace, with them that call on the Lorde with pure heart,
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not euery one that sayeth vnto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdome of heauen, but he that doeth my Fathers will which is in heauen. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lorde, Lorde, haue we not by thy Name prophecied? and by thy name cast out deuils? and by thy name done many great workes? 23 And then will I professe to them, I neuer knewe you: depart from me, ye that worke iniquitie.
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what auantageth it a man, if he win the whole worlde, and destroy himselfe, or lose himselfe?
  • Ps 50:16 : 16 But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.
  • Luke 12:45-47 : 45 But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken, 46 The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers. 47 And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.
  • Luke 13:26-27 : 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streetes. 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquitie.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing. 3 And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours,
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.

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    21To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

    22To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

    23And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

    24Knowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.

    25And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth fro all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.

    26I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

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    15But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

    16For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.

    17For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.

    18What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

    19For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

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    12All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

    13Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

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    12Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus.

    13Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before,

    14And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.

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    14But God forbid that I should reioyce, but in ye crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, & I vnto ye world.

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    30Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare to be in me.

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    7I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.

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    29Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

    30If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.

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    18For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

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    15Knowe yee not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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    23Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.

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    9This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

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    13And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

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    17From henceforth let no man put me to busines: for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus.

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