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“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
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For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.
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knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
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What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
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As Paul talked about righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, “That’s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you.”
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
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Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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The Need for Self-Discipline
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
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In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
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For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
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idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
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gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains.
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
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In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,
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Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
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Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
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and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
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Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
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without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
