1 Corinthians 9:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.
  • 2 Cor 13:5-6 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates? 6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable.
  • Rom 6:18-19 : 18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and cast out devils in your name, and done many wonderful works in your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice iniquity.'
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses himself or is cast away?
  • Ps 50:16 : 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.
  • Luke 12:45-47 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and begins to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunk; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
  • Luke 13:26-27 : 26 Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets. 27 But he will say, I tell you, I do not know you, where you are from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in all things commending ourselves as the 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 weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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    21To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

    24Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

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    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!

    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

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    12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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