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! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.
and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'
Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;
for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do; and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;
that ye may be in strength 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 in the Spirit,
so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil; and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil. read more. Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,
Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,
Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,
Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,
Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,