1 Corinthians 9:27

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.