1 Corinthians 9:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Rather, I’m landing punches on my own body and subduing it like a slave. I do this to be sure that I myself won’t be disqualified after preaching to others.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

1 Corinthians 9:27 Cross References

Psalm 50:16

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes; And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth?

Exodus 37:22

Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

Jeremiah 6:30

Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

Romans 8:13

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:15

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;