But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
1 Corinthians 9:27 - Revised Standard Version but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
Their capitals and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.”
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.
Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.
Forsaking the right way they have gone astray; they have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,