1 Corinthians 9:27

A Conservative Version

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

Cross References

Romans 8:13

For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

1 Corinthians 9:25

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Peter 2:11

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

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

2 Timothy 2:22

And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness.

2 Peter 2:15

having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

Jeremiah 6:30

Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow causes me a beating, I will avenge her, lest by no end of coming she give me a black eye.

Exodus 37:22

Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.