SELF-CONTROL.See Temperance.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
self-kon-trōl? (ἐγκράτεια, egkráteia): Rendered in the King James Version ?temperance? (compare Latin temperario and continentia), but more accurately ?self-control,? as in the Revised Version (British and American) (Act_24:25; Gal_5:23; 2Pe_1:6); adjective of same, ἐγκρατής, egkratḗs, ?self-controlled? (Tit_1:8 the Revised Version (British and American)); compare verb forms in 1Co_7:9, ?have ... continency?; 1Co_9:25, the athlete ?exerciseth self-control.? Self-control is therefore repeatedly set forth in the New Testament as among the important Christian virtues.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.