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Romans 8:13
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.
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1 Corinthians 9 25
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.
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2 Corinthians 13 5-2 Corinthians 13 6
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.But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
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1 Corinthians 8 13
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6 12-1 Corinthians 6 13
“ 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.“ Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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1 Peter 2 11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Romans 6:18-19
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
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Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who says to me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Many will tell me in that day,‘ Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’Then I will tell them,‘ I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Luke 9:25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
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2 Peter 2 15
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
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Luke 13:26-27
Then you will begin to say,‘ We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’He will say,‘ I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
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2 Corinthians 11 27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says,“ What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
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Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
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1 Corinthians 13 1-1 Corinthians 13 3
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
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Luke 12:45-47
But if that servant says in his heart,‘ My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
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Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
