World English Bible

1 Corinthians 9:27

“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 9

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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