But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
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.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.