The Fruit of the Spirit: Self Control
Texts: Proverbs 25:28; Titus 2:1-6; 2 Peter 1:5-8
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A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls.
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But as for you, teach what accords with sound[a] doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
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For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Related texts: Proverbs 1:1-7; 23:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:5-10;
2 Timothy 1:7; Titus 2:11-14;1 Peter 4:7
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Commentary
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