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Summary
- Self-control is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23); the King James Version calls it “temperance,” from the Greek enkrateia, found in Acts 24:25, Galatians 5:23 and 2 Peter 1:6.
- The Orthodox Prayer of St. Ephrem, said at the services of Great Lent, is quoted from Hapgood’s 1906 service book; the 1928 Book of Common Prayer adds the collect for the First Sunday in Lent and a family-prayer line asking to be “temperate in all things.”
- Short prayers cover temptation, anger, the tongue, food and drink, screens, money, putting off work, a habit of prayer, failing again, weariness and addiction.
- For addiction in the US, SAMHSA’s free National Helpline (1-800-662-4357) refers callers to treatment at any hour; 988 and Samaritans (116 123) answer in a crisis.
- Proverbs 25:28, 1 Corinthians 9:25–27, 2 Timothy 1:7 and Matthew 26:41 describe self-control; Hebrews 12:11 speaks of God’s discipline as training.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 141:3; Proverbs 16:32; 21:20; 25:28; Matthew 26:41; Mark 1:35; Romans 7:19; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 9:25, 27; 10:13; Galatians 5:23; 6:9; Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 3:23; 2 Timothy 1:7; Titus 2:12; Hebrews 12:11; James 1:19). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- Strong’s Greek 1466, enkrateia. Bible Hub. https://biblehub.com/greek/1466.htm
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The First Hour, Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, p. 41. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. The First Sunday in Lent, Collect, p. 125; Family Prayer, “For Grace to guide and keep us the following Day,” p. 588. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. “SAMHSA’s National Helpline.” https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/helplines/national-helpline
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact a Samaritan.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
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