1 Corinthians 9:27

Paul disciplines his own body and brings it into submission, lest after preaching to others he himself should be disqualified. Even the apostle pursues holiness with vigilance.

Cross-references · 21

• Rom 8:13For 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 Cor 9:25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• 2 Cor 13:5–6Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
• 1 Cor 6:12–13“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
• 2 Cor 6:4–5Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
• 1 Cor 8:13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
• Rom 6:18–19You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
• Luke 9:25What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
• Matt 7:21–23Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2 Cor 11:27in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
• 2 Pet 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
• Luke 13:26–27Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
• 1 Cor 4:11–12To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
• Ps 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
• Luke 12:45–47But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
• 1 Cor 13:1–3If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• Jer 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
• Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

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