1 Corinthians 9:27
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27 but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:25
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25 Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.(A)
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Romans 8:13
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13 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.(A)
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)
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2 Corinthians 13:5-6
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5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!(A) 6 I hope you will find out that we have not failed.
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1 Peter 2:11
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Live as Servants of God
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.[a](A)
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- 2.11 Or one’s life
1 Corinthians 8:13
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13 Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:12-13
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Glorify God in Body and Spirit
12 “All things are permitted for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permitted for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,”[a] and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.(A)
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- 6.13 The quotation may extend to the word other
2 Timothy 2:22
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22 Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.(A)
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2 Corinthians 6:4-5
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4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;(A)
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Romans 6:18-19
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18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.(A) 19 I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.(B)
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- 6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh
Luke 9:25
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25 For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?(A)
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Matthew 7:21-23
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Concerning Self-Deception
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.(A) 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’(B) 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’(C)
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2 Corinthians 11:27
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27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,[a] cold and naked.(A)
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- 11.27 Gk with frequent fasting
Luke 13:26-27
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26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’(A)
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2 Peter 2:15
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15 They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor,[a] who loved the wages of doing wrong(A)
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- 2.15 Other ancient authorities read Beor
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
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11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,(A) 12 and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;(B)
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Jeremiah 6:30
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30 They are called “rejected silver,”
for the Lord has rejected them.
Psalm 50:16
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16 But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?(A)
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.(A) 3 If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.(B)
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- 13.3 Other ancient authorities read body to be burned
Luke 12:45-47
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45 But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know and will cut him in pieces[a] and put him with the unfaithful. 47 That slave who knew what his master wanted but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.(A)
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- 12.46 Or cut him off
Acts 1:25
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25 to take the place[a] in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
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- 1.25 Other ancient authorities read the share
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