1 Corinthians 9:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

Cross References

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

Exodus 37:22

Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it, the whole of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

Jeremiah 6:30

They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?

Acts 1:25

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

Romans 8:13

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.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.

1 Corinthians 9:25

Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong