1 Corinthians 9:27 “No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have pr…”

1 Corinthians 9:27

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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 disqualified.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

But I beate downe my body, and bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

Darby Translation

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

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.

Bible in Basic English

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

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Cross references

“I keep”

Romans 8:13 1 Corinthians 9:25 Colossians 3:5 1 Peter 2:11 1 Corinthians 8:13 2 Corinthians 11:27

Romans 8:13 · BSB

For 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 Corinthians 9:25 · BSB

Everyone 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.

Colossians 3:5 · BSB

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Peter 2:11 · BSB

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 Corinthians 8:13 · BSB

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

2 Corinthians 11:27 · BSB

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

“and”

Romans 6:18 Romans 6:19

Romans 6:18 · BSB

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:19 · BSB

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness lead…

“lest”

Matthew 7:21–23 2 Peter 2:15 Psalm 50:16 Luke 12:45–47 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 Luke 13:26

Matthew 7:21–23 · BSB

Not 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 Peter 2:15 · BSB

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

Psalm 50:16 · BSB

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Luke 12:45–47 · BSB

But 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 Corinthians 13:1–3 · BSB

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

Luke 13:26 · BSB

Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

“a castaway”

Luke 9:25 Jeremiah 6:30 Acts 1:25 2 Corinthians 13:5 2 Corinthians 13:6

Luke 9:25 · BSB

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Acts 1:25 · BSB

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

2 Corinthians 13:5 · BSB

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?

2 Corinthians 13:6 · BSB

And I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

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