“Lord, I cannot master myself on my own. Give me your Spirit of self-control today: in what I say, eat, watch and spend, and in the work I keep putting off. Amen.” Christians pray for self-control as well as work at it, because Scripture lists it among the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23). The King James Version calls this virtue “temperance.” The Greek word behind it, enkrateia, means self-control, and it appears in only three verses of the New…

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