Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,

But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.

But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."

but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,

for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.

For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

So, since I know what the fear of God can do, I am trying to win men. My inner self is perfectly known to God, and I hope, to your consciences too.

Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, those self-mutilators!

Stop lying to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its practices,

and have put on the new self which is in the process of being made new in the likeness of its Creator, so that you may attain a perfect knowledge of Him.

For the Spirit that God has given us does not impart timidity but power and love and self-control.

lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

for you may be sure that such a man is crooked and sinful, even self-condemned.

I, Paul, write it with my own hand, I will pay it in full -- not to mention the fact that you owe me your very self besides.

A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.

Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.

But dedicate once for all your inner self, and at once you will have everything clean.

The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."

to another, through union with the same Spirit, faith; to another, by one and the same Spirit, power to cure the sick;

I actually begged Titus to go, and sent the well-known brother with him. Titus did not make any money out of you, did he? Did not he and I act in the same spirit, and take the very same steps?

Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man as such will receive the same reward as the upright man.

The city lies in a square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod, and it was one thousand, five hundred miles. Its length, breadth, and height were the same.

But the other one reproved him and said, "Do you not fear even God when you are suffering the same penalty?

So if God had given them the same gift that He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to try -- and how could I if I tried -- to thwart God?"

So we send Judas and Silas to you, to bring you the same message by word of mouth.

and as they all had the same trade, they proceeded to work together.

But that same night the Lord stood by Paul's side and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify for me in Rome, too."

and I have the same hope in God that they cherish for themselves, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time they undid the ropes of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the breeze they headed for the beach.

So they set a day for him, and came in large numbers to see him at the place where he was lodging, and from morning till night he continued to explain to them the kingdom of God, at the same time giving them his own testimony and trying from the law of Moses and the prophets to convince them about Jesus.

Therefore, you have no excuse, whoever you are, who pose as a judge of others, for when you pass judgment on another, you condemn yourself, for you who pose as a judge are practicing the very same sins yourself.

And you, who pose as a judge of those who practice such sins and yet continue doing the same yourself, do you for once suppose that you are going to escape the judgment of God?

since there is but one God, who will consider the Jews in right standing with Himself, only on condition of their faith, and the heathen peoples on the same condition.

In the same way the Spirit, too, is helping us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself pleads for us with unspeakable yearnings,

Has not the potter the right with his clay to make of the same lump one vessel for ornamental purposes, another for degrading service?

But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

The wife does not have the right to do as she pleases with her own body; the husband has his right to it. In the same way the husband does not have the right to do as he pleases with his own body; the wife has her right to it.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

and all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink -- for they continued to drink the water from the spiritual Rock which accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ --

and any woman who prays or prophesies bareheaded dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing with having her head shaved.

In the same way, after supper, He took the cup of wine, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

There are varieties of gifts, but the Spirit is the same in all;

there are varieties of service, but the Lord to be served is the same;