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

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

And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient time, I will call for you.

Deprive not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control.

Deprive not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control.

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

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

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

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

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

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

And be not drunk with wine, in which 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 love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them who are outside; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. read more. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

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

And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.