And everyone who competes for the prize controls himself in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslaved under the power of any.

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual perversion but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat flesh, so that I not make my brother stumble.

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 will live.

But in all things commending ourselves as ministers of God; in much endurance, in afflictions, in needs, in distresses,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings,

in hardship and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness;

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: sexual perversion, uncleanness, passion, evil lusts, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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

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

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I were to bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I were to give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work out lawlessness!

But if that servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.

But He will say, I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.

They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Rejected silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or suffers loss?

to take part in this ministry and apostleship which Judas abandoned, that he might go to his own place.

Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know, yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you; unless indeed you are ones failing the test?

But I hope that you will know that we are not ones failing the test.