KJV King James Version
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.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
WEB World English Bible
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 9
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 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.
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ἀλλ᾽G235 · allabutὑπωπιάζωG5299 · hupōpiazōto wear outμουG3165 · memeτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoσῶμαG4983 · sōmabodyκαὶG2532 · kaiandδουλαγωγῶ,G1396 · doulagōgeōto enslaveμήG3361 · mēnotπωςG4458 · pōshowἄλλοιςG243 · allosanotherκηρύξαςG2784 · kērussōto preachαὐτὸςG846 · autosit/s/heἀδόκιμοςG96 · adokimosfailingγένωμαι.¶G1096 · ginomaito be
Cross-references
Romans 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.1 Corinthians 9:25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:2 Corinthians 13:5-6Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;1 Corinthians 6:12-13All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.2 Corinthians 6:4-5But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,1 Corinthians 8:13Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.Romans 6:18-19Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?Matthew 7:21-23Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.2 Timothy 2:22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.2 Peter 2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;Luke 13:26-27Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.Psalm 50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?1 Corinthians 4:11-12Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Luke 12:45-47But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
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