but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
their knops and their branches have been of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
`Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'
for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?
to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'
for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;
in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the `son' of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,