No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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 w
Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do i
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stum
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord o
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedn
Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menserv
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.
to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”