intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

I do not venture to class myself or to compare myself with certain exalted individuals! They belong to the class of self-praisers; while I limit myself to my own sphere, I compare myself with my own standard,

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

gentleness, self-control: ??there is no law against those who practise such things.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made by hands, and in three days I will build another temple not made by hands.'"