Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: For the present withdraw; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

that, being rooted and founded in love, you may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and hight,

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

Not a new convert, lest, having become conceited, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Further, he must have a good reputation from those who are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. read more. The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

Their wives likewise must be grave, not slanderers, watchful, faithful in all things.

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, haters of those who are good,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power,

and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;

For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ.