1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 9:27

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.

KJV

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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.

WEB

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

YLT

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

DBT

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

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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2 Corinthians 13:5
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?
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.
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.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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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To prevent this, Paul took so much pains in subduing and keeping under bodily inclinations, lest by any means he himself, who had preached to others, should yet miss the crown, be disapproved and rejected by his sovereign Judge. A holy fear of himself was necessary to preserve the fidelity of an apostle; and how much more necessary is it to our preservation?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1CO 9:27COL 3:5 ROM 8:13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 9:27COL 3:5 GAL 5:24
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
1CO 9:27ROM 8:13 1PE 2:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 9:27ROM 8:13 GAL 6:8
1CO 9:271PE 2:11 1JN 2:15-17
1CO 9:27COL 3:5 GAL 5:19-21
1CO 9:271CO 9:25 2TI 2:5
1CO 9:271CO 9:25 REV 2:10

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