Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go away for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

But if they do not have the gift of continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

But if they do not have the gift of continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye are led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told you in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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

may be able to well comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet, the hope of saving health.

It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of only one wife, vigilant, temperate, of worldly affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of only one wife, vigilant, temperate, of worldly affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

not a novice, lest being puffed up, he fall into judgment of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of those who are outside lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. read more. Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,

but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, temperate, just, holy, gentle,

that the aged men be temperate, venerable, prudent, sound in faith, in charity, in tolerance.

as all things that pertain to life and to godliness are given us of his divine power, through the knowledge of him that has called us by his glory and virtue,

and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.