1 Corinthians 9:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.”
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“No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
King James Version · Public Domain“but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 9:27 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 37:22The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
- Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Luke 9:25What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 12:45But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
- Luke 13:26Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
- Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
- Romans 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
- Romans 8:13For 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 Corinthians 4:11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
- 1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
- 2 Corinthians 6:4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
- 2 Corinthians 11:27in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- 2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
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