Reference: Temperance
Hastings
1. In the RV 'temperance' is the tr of the Gr. word enkrateia, the root-meaning of which is 'power over oneself,' 'self-mastery.' It is a comprehensive virtue, and on this account 'self-control,' the tr of Revised Version margin, is to be preferred (Ac 24:25; Ga 5:23; 2Pe 1:5). The corresponding adjective is found only in Tit 1:8, and the verb only in 1Co 7:9; 9:25. The negative form of the adjective is translated 'without self-control' (2Ti 3:3), and of the noun 'excess' (Mt 23:25), and 'incontinency' (1Co 7:5). The RV tr another Gr. word (n
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go for this time, but taking time later, I will call for you.
Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.
Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly 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 are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
meekness, self-control; against such things 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 do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.
But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.
Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,
Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching, not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the Devil. But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. read more. Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,
Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,
Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,
Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,
Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,
but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,
aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue,
and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,
For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.