"The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Original word: ἐγκρατεύομαι
Transliteration: egkrateuomai
Definition (short): self-control
Definition (full): to exercise self-control
Definition: to exercise self-control
NASB Translation: exercises self-control (1), have self-control (1).
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Middle voice from
egkrates ; to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity) -- can(-not) contain, be temperate.
see GREEK egkrates
KJV:
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
NASB:
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
KJV:
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
NASB:
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.