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 after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• 1 Cor 9:25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 2 Cor 13:5–6Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1 Cor 6:12–13“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
• 2 Cor 6:4–5but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• 1 Cor 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
• Rom 6:18–19Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
• Luke 9:25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
• Matt 7:21–23Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
• 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
• Luke 13:26–27Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
• 1 Cor 4:11–12Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
• Ps 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
• Luke 12:45–47But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• 1 Cor 13:1–3If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• Jer 6:30Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
• Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

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