to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; ¹  to perseverance, godliness;

gentleness, and ¹  self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled, ¹ 

You know ¹  that such a person is twisted by sin ²  and is conscious of it himself. ³ 

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

For God did not give us a Spirit ¹  of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

but ¹  wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition ²  and do not obey the truth but follow ³  unrighteousness.

I, Paul, have written ¹  this letter ²  with my own hand: ³  I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe ⁴  me your very self.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom ¹  with their self-imposed worship and false humility ²  achieved by an ³  unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence. ⁴ 

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. ¹ 

For people ¹  will be lovers of themselves, ²  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper. ¹ 

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image ¹  – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth. ² 

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

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, ¹  sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. ² 

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, ¹  if she ²  continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

The overseer ¹  then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, ²  temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

It trains us ¹  to reject godless ways ²  and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,