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1 Corinthians 9:27

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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:

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
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
KJV
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.
WEB
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
ASV
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.
DARBY
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
BLB
But I batter my body and bring [it] into servitude, lest somehow, having preached to others, I myself might be disqualified.
ÅB
men jeg undertvinger mitt legeme og holder det som slave, for at ikke jeg som preker for andre, selv skal finnes uverdig.
OTB
I stedet disiplinerer jeg strengt min kropp og gjør den til min slave, for at jeg etter å ha forkynt for andre, ikke skal bli diskvalifisert.
B1930
men jeg undertvinger mitt legeme og holder det i trældom, forat ikke jeg som preker for andre, selv skal finnes uverdig.

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  • Romans 8:13

    For 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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 9:25

    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.

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  • Colossians 3:5

    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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  • 2 Corinthians 13:5–6

    Examine 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?

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  • 1 Peter 2:11

    Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:12–13

    All 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.

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  • 2 Corinthians 6:4–5

    But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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  • 1 Corinthians 8:13

    Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

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