But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

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.

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

unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,