Autocontrole
O autocontrole é fruto do Espírito e virtude indispensável. A graça de Deus nos ensina a renunciar à impiedade e a viver com sobriedade, domínio próprio e piedade no mundo presente.
Fruto e virtude
O domínio próprio é fruto do Espírito. Acrescentai ao conhecimento o autocontrole. A disciplina interior produz maturidade.
And the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, [and] self-control. Against such there is no law;
And [for] this same [reason] also, having brought in all diligence, supplement your faith with virtue, and with virtue—knowledge, and with knowledge—self-control, and with self-control—endurance, and with endurance—piety, and with piety—brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness—love;
For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, we may live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present age,
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
No temptation has taken you—except that of man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above what you are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear [it].
Dominar a si mesmo
Melhor é quem domina o seu espírito do que quem toma uma cidade. A cidade sem muros é quem não tem autocontrole.
Better [is] the [one] slow to anger than the mighty, || And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.
A city broken down without walls, || [Is] a man without restraint over his spirit!
A fool brings out all his mind, || And the wise restrains it until afterward.
Do not incline [to] the right or to the left, || Turn aside your foot from evil!
The fool—his anger is known in a day, || And the prudent is covering shame.
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue, || And those loving it eat its fruit.
and do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what [is] the will of God—the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
because our wrestling is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual [forces] of evil in the heavenly [places];
so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
"I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
See to yourselves that you may not lose the things that we worked for, but may receive a full reward;