Bible Concordance
Self-control (14 Occurrences)Acts 19:36 These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly. (WEY)
Acts 24:25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you." (WEB WEY ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 7:5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn. (WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV)
1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (WEB ASV BBE NAS RSV)
Galatians 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
1 Timothy 2:9 and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes, (WEY)
1 Timothy 2:15 But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth. (BBE)
2 Timothy 1:7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. (WEB BBE RSV)
2 Timothy 3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (WEB WEY ASV NAS NIV)
2 Timothy 4:5 But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office. (WEY BBE)
2 Peter 1:6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness; (WEB WEY ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 28:19 For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord. (BBE)
Proverbs 25:28 He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into. (See RSV NIV)
Thesaurus
Selfcontrol... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
SELF-
CONTROL. self-kon-trol' (egkrateia):
Rendered in the King James Version "temperance" (compare
.../s/selfcontrol.htm - 7kSelf-control (14 Occurrences)
Self-control. << Selfcontrol, Self-control. Self-controlled >>. Noah Webster's
Dictionary ... << Selfcontrol, Self-control. Self-controlled >>. Reference Bible.
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Godliness (16 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 1:6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and
in patience godliness; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Endurance (31 Occurrences)
... is. (WEY DBY YLT NAS). 2 Peter 1:6 along with knowledge, self-control; along
with self-control, power of endurance; (WEY DBY YLT). 2 ...
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Maintain (50 Occurrences)
... Maintain (50 Occurrences). Acts 19:36 These facts, then, being unquestioned, it
becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly. (WEY). ...
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Steadfastness (15 Occurrences)
... mercy. (See RSV). 2 Peter 1:6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in
self-control patience; and in patience godliness; (See RSV). 2 ...
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Passion (82 Occurrences)
... word a slight sexual reference, but this must not be overstressed; the warning probably
includes any violent over-emotion that robs a man of his self-control. ...
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Control (88 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they don't have self-control, let them
marry. ... (WEY). Galatians 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. ...
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Exercise (35 Occurrences)
... duties. (WEY). 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they don't have self-control, let them
marry. For it's better to marry than to burn. (See RSV). ...
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Sermon (1 Occurrence)
... in lands and houses, in social position, in intellectual attainments, but in the
wealth of the inner life, in moral strength, in self-control, in spiritual ...
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Greek
1466. egkrateia -- mastery, self-control ... mastery,
self-
control. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: egkrateia
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat'-i-ah) Short Definition: self-mastery,
self ... /greek/1466.htm - 7k1467. egkrateuomai -- to exercise self-control
... to exercise self-control. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: egkrateuomai Phonetic
Spelling: (eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I exercise self ...
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4995. sophronismos -- self-control
... self-control. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: sophronismos Phonetic
Spelling: (so-fron-is-mos') Short Definition: self-control, self-discipline ...
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4997. sophrosune -- soundness of mind, self-control
... soundness of mind, self-control. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
sophrosune Phonetic Spelling: (so-fros-oo'-nay) Short Definition: sanity ...
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193. akrates -- powerless, impotent
... powerless, impotent. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akrates Phonetic
Spelling: (ak-rat'-ace) Short Definition: lacking self-control, inclined to ...
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192. akrasia -- want of power
... and 2904 , "prevail") -- properly, without prevailing (taking dominion), ie the
inability to maintain control; (figuratively) without self-control and hence ...
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4993. sophroneo -- to be of sound mind, ie to be temperate
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sophroneo Phonetic Spelling: (so-fron-eh'-
o) Short Definition: I am sober-minded, exercise self-control Definition: I am ...
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4102. pistis -- faith, faithfulness
... love, joy, peace,. patience, kindness, goodness, (4102), 23 gentleness,.
self-control; against such things there is no law.". 2 Thes 1 ...
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857. apheidia -- unsparing treatment
... 857 -- (from 1 "not" and 5339 , "to spare") -- properly, severity, referring to
a " form of self-control" based on an ascetic, unsparing attitude" (, 1, 88.90 ...
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