Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire; but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil. But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil. read more. Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;