Domínio próprio
O domínio próprio é fruto do Espírito e marca de maturidade espiritual. A Bíblia ensina que quem governa o próprio espírito é melhor do que quem conquista uma cidade.
Fruto do Espírito
O fruto do Espírito inclui domínio próprio. A graça de Deus nos ensina a viver de maneira sóbria e justa neste mundo.
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.
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,
abiding the blessed hope and the coming of the glory of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.
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.
Governar a si mesmo
Melhor é o que domina o seu espírito do que o que toma uma cidade. A cidade sem muros é o homem sem domínio próprio.
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.
Sin shall not fail in much speaking; but he that measureth his lips, is most prudent.
Know ye not, that they that run in a furlong, all run, but one taketh the prize? So run ye, that ye catch.
Each man that striveth in fight, abstaineth him from all things; and they, that they take a corruptible crown, but we an uncorrupt.
Therefore I run so, not as to an uncertain thing; thus I fight, not as beating the air;
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servage [or servitude]; lest peradventure when I preach to others, I myself be made reprovable.
And if they contain not them-selves, [or be not chaste], be they wedded; for it is better to be wedded, than to be burnt.
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].
Disciplina e vigilância
Sede sóbrios e vigilantes. O diabo anda em derredor como leão rugidor. A sobriedade nos protege e fortalece.
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.
Whom against-stand ye, strong in the faith, witting that the same passion is made to that brotherhood of you, that is in the world.
For the end of all things shall nigh. Therefore be ye prudent, and wake ye in prayers;
Therefore for Christ suffered in flesh, be ye also armed by the same thinking; for he that suffered in flesh ceased from sins,
that that is left now of time in flesh live not now to the desires of men, but to the will of God.
For the time that is passed is enough to the will of heathen men to be ended, which walked in lecheries, and lusts, in much drinking of wine, in unmeasurable [or oft] eatings, and drinkings, and unleaveful worshipping of maumets [or of idols].
In which now they be astonied, in which thing they wonder, for ye run not together into the same confusion of lechery, and blaspheme.
And they shall give reason to him, that is ready to deem the quick and the dead.
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.
O senhorio de Cristo
Todo domínio pertence a Cristo. Ele é Senhor dos senhores e Rei dos reis — e nos capacita a viver em santidade.
All works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, in each place of his lord-ship; my soul, bless thou the Lord.
Thy realm is the realm of all worlds; and thy lordship is in all generation and into generation. The Lord is faithful in all his words; and holy in all his works.
Therefore I beheld in the vision of night, and lo! one as a son of man came with the clouds of heaven; and he came fully till to the Eld of days, and in the sight of him they offered him.
And he gave to him power, and honour, and realm, and all the peoples, lineages, and languages shall serve him; his power is everlasting power, that shall not be taken away, and his realm, that shall not be corrupted.
High God made at me miracles and marvels; therefore it pleased me to preach his miracles,
for those be great, and his marvels, for those be strong; and his realm is an everlasting realm, and his power is into generation and into generation.
Forsooth a little child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and prince-hood is made [up] on his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, A counsellor, God, Strong, Father of the world to coming, A prince of peace, [or Marvellous, Counsellor, God, Strong, Father of the world to come, Prince of peace].
His empire shall be multiplied, and none end shall be of his peace; he shall sit on the seat of David, and on the realm of him, that he confirm it, and make strong in doom and rightfulness [or rightwiseness], from henceforth and till into without end. The fervent love of the Lord of hosts shall make this.
Which delivered us from the power of darknesses, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his loving,
in whom we have again-buying, and remission of sins.
which he wrought in Christ, raising him from death, and setting him on his right half in heavenly things,
above each principat, and potentate, and virtue, and domination, and above each name that is named, not only in this world, but also in the world to coming [or to come];
But our living is in heavens [or in heaven]; from whence also we abide the Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ,
which shall reform the body of our meekness, that is made like [or configured] to the body of his clearness, by the working by which he may also make all things subject to him.
witting that Christ, rising again from death, now dieth not, death shall no more have lordship on him.
And they that be in flesh, may not please to God.
But ye be not in flesh, but in Spirit; if nevertheless the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, this is not his.
And as in Adam all men die, so in Christ all men shall be quickened.
But each man in his order; the first fruit [or first fruits], Christ, afterward they that be of Christ, that believed in the coming of Christ;
afterward an end, when he shall betake the kingdom to God and to the Father, when he shall void all princehood, and power, and virtue.
But it behooveth him to reign, till he put all his enemies under his feet.
Power and dread is with him, that is, God, which maketh according in his high things.