Scriptures

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1 Corinthians 9
²⁵ And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
²⁶ Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
²⁷ But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10
¹ Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
² all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
³ all ate the same spiritual food,
⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
⁵ But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
⁶ Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
⁷ And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
⁸ Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;