self discipline
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11Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.
28Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.
24Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve. 25And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible. 26And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air. 27Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
27Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, 23meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.
11For the grace of God our Savior has appeared to all men, 12instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age, 13looking forward to the blessed hope and the advent of the glory of the great God and of our Savior Jesus Christ. 14He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.
8but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste,
12instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,
32Whoever rejects discipline despises his own soul. But whoever agrees to correction is a possessor of the heart.
25And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible.