[1Co 9:25-26 KJV] 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

[2Co 6:4-5 KJV] 4 But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

[Rom 8:13 KJV] 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

[Act 1:25 KJV] 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

[2Pe 2:15 KJV] 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

[Eph 4:22 KJV] 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

[Col 3:5 KJV] 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

[Jer 6:30 KJV] 30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

[Luk 9:25 KJV] 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

[2Co 13:5-6 KJV] 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.