1 Corinthians 9:27 - New Revised Standard Version

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Rather, I’m landing punches on my own body and subduing it like a slave. I do this to be sure that I myself won’t be disqualified after preaching to others.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

1 Corinthians 9:27 Tagairtí Cros

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

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 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: fornication, 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,