27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.


In Context

24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain.

25 And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

1 Corinthians 9:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:27But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:27No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:27But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:27But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:27but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others — I myself may become disapproved.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.