1 Corinthians 9:27

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Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
  • 2 Cor 13:5-6 : 5 Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you– unless, indeed, you fail the test! 6 And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!
  • Col 3:5 : 5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
  • Rom 6:18-19 : 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything. 13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Judgment of Pretenders“Not everyone who says to me,‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven– only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day, many will say to me,‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them,‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
  • Ps 50:16 : 16 God says this to the evildoer:“How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads. 12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,
  • Luke 12:45-47 : 45 But if that slave should say to himself,‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk, 46 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful. 47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.
  • 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 reply,‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

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    21To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

    22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

    23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

    24Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

    25Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

    26So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-19
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

    17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

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    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

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    11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

    12Keep Going Forward Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected– but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

    13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

    14with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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    5Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules.

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    14But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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    30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

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    7I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

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    7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

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    5On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

    7even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me– so that I would not become arrogant.

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    29Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

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    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

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    10Because of this I am writing these things while absent, so that when I arrive I may not have to deal harshly with you by using my authority– the Lord gave it to me for building up, not for tearing down!

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

  • Col 2:23
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    23Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

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    8For“physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

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    9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

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    4– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

  • Gal 4:13
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    13Personal Appeal of Paul But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

  • Gal 6:17
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    17From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

  • 2 Cor 4:10
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    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

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    16by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

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    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.

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    12Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.

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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

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    20My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.