"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish. But if you are habitually led by the Spirit you are not under law.

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

against such there is no law.

against such there is no law.

If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height,"

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.

But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching; no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil. He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil. read more. Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

Deaconesses likewise must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.

but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.