1 Corinthians 9:27
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27 But I discipline my body and (A)keep it under control,[a] lest after preaching to others (B)I myself should be (C)disqualified.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:27 Greek I pummel my body and make it a slave
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 (A)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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2 Corinthians 13:5-6
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5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. (A)Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that (B)Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 6 I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.
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1 Corinthians 9:25
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25 Every (A)athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we (B)an imperishable.
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1 Corinthians 8:13
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13 Therefore, (A)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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Colossians 3:5
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5 (A)Put to death therefore (B)what is earthly in you:[a] (C)sexual immorality, impurity, (D)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (E)which is idolatry.
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- Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth
1 Corinthians 6:12-13
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Flee Sexual Immorality
12 (A)“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 (B)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one (C)and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but (D)for the Lord, and (E)the Lord for the body.
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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Romans 6:18-19
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18 and, (A)having been set free from sin, (B)have become slaves of righteousness. 19 (C)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For (D)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (E)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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2 Timothy 2:22
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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.
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Matthew 7:21-23
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I Never Knew You
21 (A)“Not everyone who (B)says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will (C)enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who (D)does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 (E)On that day (F)many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not (G)prophesy in your name, and cast out demons (H)in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 (I)And then will I declare to them, ‘I (J)never knew you; (K)depart from me, (L)you workers of lawlessness.’
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2 Peter 2:15
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15 Forsaking the right way, (A)they have gone astray. They have followed (B)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved (C)gain from wrongdoing,
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Luke 9:25
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25 (A)For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
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Luke 13:26-27
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26 Then you will begin to say, (A)‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, (B)I do not know where you come from. (C)Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’
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2 Corinthians 11:27
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27 (A)in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, (B)in hunger and thirst, often without food,[a] in cold and exposure.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:27 Or often in fasting
Jeremiah 6:30
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30 (A)Rejected silver they are called,
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?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have (A)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, (B)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 (C)If I give away all I have, and (D)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
Luke 12:45-47
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45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and (B)get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come (C)on a day when he does not expect him and (D)at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 (E)And that servant who (F)knew his master's will but (G)did not get ready (H)or act according to his will, will receive a (I)severe beating.
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Acts 1:25
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25 to take the place in (A)this ministry and (B)apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
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