Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

(for though I am not conscious to my self of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not hereby absolved:) but he that is my supreme judge, is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ.

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

I wish that all the people were as I am; but each person has his own gift from God, one of this kind and one of that.

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

and these all worketh even the self same spirit, dividing to every man several gifts even as he will.

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured.

I assure you, believers, by the pride which I have in you in [your union with] Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily [I face death and die to self].