4 Maccabees 1:31-33

Common English Bible

³¹ Self-control means having control over your desires. ³² Some desires come from the inner person, and others come from the body. Clear thinking obviously has control over both. ³³ Otherwise, how is it that when we are attracted by foods that we aren’t allowed to eat, we can walk away from the pleasure that we would get from them? Isn’t it because clear thinking is in control over our desires? I think so.