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1 Corinthians 9

1 Cor. 9:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
alla (Greek #235)
properly, other things, i.e. (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations)
KJV usage: and, but (even), howbeit, indeed, nay, nevertheless, no, notwithstanding, save, therefore, yea, yet.
Pronounce: al-lah'
Origin: neuter plural of 243
Ii keep under
hupopiazo (Greek #5299)
to hit under the eye (buffet or disable an antagonist as a pugilist), i.e. (figuratively) to tease or annoy (into compliance), subdue (one's passions)
KJV usage: keep under, weary.
Pronounce: hoop-o-pee-ad'-zo
Origin: from a compound of 5259 and a derivative of 3700
my
mou (Greek #3450)
of me
KJV usage: I, me, mine (own), my.
Pronounce: moo
Origin: the simpler form of 1700
body
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
soma (Greek #4983)
the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively
KJV usage: bodily, body, slave.
Pronounce: so'-mah
Origin: from 4982
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
bring
doulagogeo (Greek #1396)
to be a slave-driver, i.e. to enslave (figuratively, subdue)
KJV usage: bring into subjection.
Pronounce: doo-lag-ogue-eh'-o
Origin: from a presumed compound of 1401 and 71
it into subjection
doulagogeo (Greek #1396)
to be a slave-driver, i.e. to enslave (figuratively, subdue)
KJV usage: bring into subjection.
Pronounce: doo-lag-ogue-eh'-o
Origin: from a presumed compound of 1401 and 71
: lest that by any means
mepos (Greek #3381)
lest somehow
KJV usage: lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps).
Pronounce: may'-pos
Origin: μή πως (may tis) from 3361 and 4458
, when I have preached
kerusso (Greek #2784)
to herald (as a public crier), especially divine truth (the gospel)
KJV usage: preacher(-er), proclaim, publish.
Pronounce: kay-roos'-so
Origin: of uncertain affinity
to others
allos (Greek #243)
"else," i.e. different (in many applications)
KJV usage: more, one (another), (an-, some an-)other(-s, -wise).
Pronounce: al'-los
Origin: a primary word
, I myself
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
should be
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
a castaway
adokimos (Greek #96)
unapproved, i.e. rejected; by implication, worthless (literally or morally)
KJV usage: castaway, rejected, reprobate.
Pronounce: ad-ok'-ee-mos
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1384
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Rom. 8:13• 13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if by [the] Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)

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I keep.
1 Cor. 9:25• 25And every one that contendeth is temperate in all things: they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (1 Cor. 9:25)
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1 Cor. 4:11‑12• 11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
 12and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer; (1 Cor. 4:11‑12)
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1 Cor. 6:12‑13• 12All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
 13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will bring to nought both it and them; but the body [is] not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (1 Cor. 6:12‑13)
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1 Cor. 8:13• 13Wherefore, if meat stumble my brother, I will in nowise eat flesh forever, that I may not stumble my brother. (1 Cor. 8:13)
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Rom. 8:13• 13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if by [the] Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)
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2 Cor. 6:4‑5• 4But in everything as ministers of God commending ourselves, in much patience, in affliction, in necessities, in straits,
 5in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, (2 Cor. 6:4‑5)
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2 Cor. 11:27• 27in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:27)
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Col. 3:5• 5Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)
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2 Tim. 2:22• 22But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (2 Tim. 2:22)
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1 Peter 2:11• 11Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)
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Rom. 6:18‑19• 18and having been freed from sin ye became bondservants to righteousness.
 19I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh; for as ye yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:18‑19)
lest.
1 Cor. 13:1‑3• 1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, yet have not love, I am become sounding brass and a clanging cymbal.
 2And if I have prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to remove mountains, yet have not love, I am nothing.
 3And if I should dole out in food all my substance, and if I should deliver my body that I might be burned, and have not love, I am nothing profited. (1 Cor. 13:1‑3)
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Psa. 50:16•  (Psa. 50:16)
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Matt. 7:21‑23• 21Not everyone that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that doeth the will of my Father that is in the heavens.
 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many works of power?
 23And then will I avow to them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work lawlessness. (Matt. 7:21‑23)
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Luke 12:45‑47• 45But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
 46the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he doth not expect it, and in an hour he knoweth not of, and shall cut him in two, and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.
 47But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself], nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes]. (Luke 12:45‑47)
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Luke 13:26‑27• 26then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence and thou didst teach in our streets;
 27and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity. (Luke 13:26‑27)
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2 Peter 2:15• 15abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness, (2 Peter 2:15)
a castaway.
Jer. 6:30•  (Jer. 6:30)
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Luke 9:25• 25For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed or come under the penalty of the loss of himself? (Luke 9:25)
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Acts 1:25• 25to take the place of this service and apostleship from which Judas fell away to go unto his own place. (Acts 1:25)
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2 Cor. 13:5‑6• 5try your own selves whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves. Or recognize ye not as to your own selves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobate?
 6But I hope ye shall know that we are not reprobate. (2 Cor. 13:5‑6)
• As a vigorous wrestler, he kept under his body, which would have hindered him. There was reality in his pursuit of heaven: he would tolerate nothing that opposed it. (“1 Corinthians 9” by J.N. Darby)
• “Lest...I myself should be a castaway.”That is, “reprobate” — worthless refuse, as Jeremiah 6:30; 2 Corinthians 13:57; 2 Timothy 3:8; Titus 1:16. Not merely one’s service rejected and thus one set aside, but unconverted preachers like Judas will, in the end, be exposed, to their everlasting shame. Many baptized never reached Canaan in the following twelve verses. Counterfeits never were genuine. (“Help on Hard Verses” by A.C. Brown)
• It is an utter mistake to suppose that the language of the Apostle supposes any fear of perdition for his own soul. He had grave fears for those who were living at ease and carelessly. It is very possible for a man to preach to others, and be lost himself; but such an one does not buffet the body, nor bring it into subjection. Had the Apostle lived without conscience, he must have assuredly been lost, as indeed one of the twelve was. Here we are shown the inseparable connection between a holy walk along the way, and eternal life at the end of it. (“Notes in 1 Corinthians 9:15-27” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

W. Kelly Translation

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But I discipline my body and lead [it] captive, lest by any means, having preached to others, I myself should be reprobate.