and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law.

which [things] {although they have}, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, {do not have any value} against the indulgence of the flesh.

So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.

Likewise also the women should adorn themselves in appropriate clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold jewelry or pearls or expensive clothing,

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For it is necessary [for] the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,

but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled,

Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance.

[to be] self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

Likewise, exhort the young men to be self-controlled,

training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,

knowing that such a person is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

I, Paul, write [this] with my [own] hand: I will pay it back, lest I mention to you that {you owe me even your very self besides}.

You have lived self-indulgently on the earth and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

Therefore, {when you have prepared your minds for action} [by] being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Now the end of all [things] draws near. Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for [your] prayers.