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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἐγκρατεύομαι

(Strong's #1467 — Verb — enkrateuomai — eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee )

en, "in," kratos, "power, strength," lit., "to have power over oneself," is rendered "(if) they have (not) continency" (i.e., are lacking in self-control), in 1 Corinthians 7:9 , RV; AV, "can (not) contain;" in 1 Corinthians 9:25 , "is temperate." See TEMPERATE.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Continency'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/continency.html. 1940.
 
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