For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

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

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

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

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."

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

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.

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

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

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

For the Spirit God has given us is a spirit not of timidity but of power, love, and self-discipline.

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

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

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it??ot to mention the fact that you owe me your very self besides.

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