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.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,
temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.
And bring ye in all busyness, and minister in your faith virtue, and in virtue knowing [or science];
in knowing [or in science], abstinence, in abstinence patience, in patience piety;
in piety, love of brotherhood, and in love of brotherhood charity.
For the grace of God, our Saviour, hath appeared to all men,
and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servage [or servitude]; lest peradventure when I preach to others, I myself be made reprovable.
Each man that striveth in fight, abstaineth him from all things; and they, that they take a corruptible crown, but we an uncorrupt.
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
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.
A patient man is better than a strong man; and he that is lord of his soul, is better than an overcomer of cities.
As a city open, and without compass of walls; so is a man that may not refrain his spirit in speaking.
A fool bringeth forth all his spirit; a wise man delayeth, and reserveth into time coming afterward.
Bow thou not to the right side, neither to the left side; turn away thy foot from evil.
A fool showeth anon his ire; but he that dissembleth wrongs, is wise.
Death and life be in the works of [the] tongue; they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.
And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
Know ye, my brethren most loved, be each man swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to wrath;
For why striving [or battle] is not to us against flesh and blood, but against [the] princes and potentates, against governors of the world of these darknesses, against spiritual things of wickedness, in heavenly things.
Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober.
I made [a] covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think on a virgin.
See ye yourselves, lest ye lose the things that ye have wrought, that ye receive full meed;