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 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 Cor 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.
• Col 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• 2 Cor 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 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1 Cor 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 Cor 6:4–5But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• 1 Cor 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.
• Rom 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?
• Matt 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 Tim 2:22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2 Cor 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 2 Pet 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.
• 1 Cor 4:11–12Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
• Ps 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?
• 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;
• 1 Cor 13:1–3Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
• Jer 6:30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
• Acts 1:25That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

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