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 ye make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of robbery and licentiousness.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of robbery and licentiousness.
And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed, and answered, Go thy way for the present; and when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.
Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.
but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.
For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would. But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the Law.
envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also told you in time past, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
meekness, temperance; against such things as these there is no law.
meekness, temperance; against such things as these there is no law.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
that ye may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,
And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with the Spirit,
Let us not sleep, then, as others, but let us watch and be sober.
but let us, as we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
not a new convert, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil; moreover he must also have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. read more. Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
natural affection, implacable, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, without love for what is good,
but hospitable, a lover of what is good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,
that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
Seeing that his Divine power hath given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness;
and to knowledge selfcontrol, and to selfcontrol endurance, and to endurance godliness,
For if these things are in you and abound, they make you neither inactive nor unfruitful in gaining the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.