And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
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Gill's Exposition
And to knowledge, temperance,.... Avoiding all excess in eating and drinking, and all impure and unclean lusts; for it signifies nothing what a man knows, or professes to know, if his life is a scene…
Barnes' Notes
And to knowledge temperance - On the meaning of the word “temperance,” see the Act 24:25 note, and 1Co 9:25 note. The word here refers to the mastery over all our evil inclinations and appetites. We…
Adam Clarke
Temperance - A proper and limited use of all earthly enjoyments, keeping every sense under proper restraints, and never permitting the animal part to subjugate the rational.
Patience - Bearing all…
In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle - to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obtained precious faith, and been made…
Cambridge Bible
and to knowledge temperance Better, as before, and by knowledge temperance. The word for "temperance" has a wider range than the modern sense of the English term. "Self-government" or "self-control"…
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