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.\par
for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they {\i do it} to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Put to death therefore the members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.\par
For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
{\i in} labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
having forsaken the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the {\i son} of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.\par
But unto the wicked God saith,\par\tab What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,\par\tab And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.}
Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.