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Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
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Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
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As Paul talked about righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, “That’s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you.”
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Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
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Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
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Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
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to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
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Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
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It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
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and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
