These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness,

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

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you."

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

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

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

But women will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-restraint.

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power and love and self-discipline.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

For the overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not fond of sordid gain,

but hospitable, a lover of what is good, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled;

knowing that such a man is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will pay it backnot to mention that you owe me even your own self.