But to the wicked, God says: “What are you doing, reciting My laws and taking My covenant in your mouth?
1 Corinthians 9:27 - Tree of Life Version Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not 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 are you doing, reciting My laws and taking My covenant in your mouth?
Their bulbs and their branches were one piece with it, an entire hammered work of pure gold.
yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice so she won’t wear me out by her incessant coming.’”
“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
to take the position in this office as emissary, from which Judah turned aside to go to his own place.”
For if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Ruach you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
For this reason, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I do not cause my brother to stumble.
Every competitor exercises self-control in all respects. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we do it to receive an imperishable one.
in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Therefore, put to death what is earthly in you—sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed—for that is idolatry.
Now flee from youthful desires; instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and shalom, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.
They have abandoned the straight way. They have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.