"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to 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, that you may not do the things that you desire. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

Do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

so then let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.

But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. read more. Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.