- But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
- Whoever has no rule over his own spirit
Is like a city broken down, without walls. - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
- Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
- And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
- For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
- He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. - For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
- But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
- For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
- But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
- A fool vents all his feelings,
But a wise man holds them back. - He who is slow to wrath has great understanding,
But he who is impulsive exalts folly. - So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- He who guards his mouth preserves his life,
But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction. - If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.
- “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.
- Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.
So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.Next verse!With image