Is that moral virtue by which we restrain concupiscence. There is this distinction between, chastity and continence:<\/p>\n
Chastity requires no effort, because it may result from constitution; whereas continency appears to be the consequence of a victory gained over ourselves. The term is most usually applied to men; as chastity is to women. <\/p>\n
See CHASTITY.<\/p>\n
SEE CHASTITY; SEE VIRGINITY.<\/p>\n
is that moral virtue by which we restrain concupiscence. There is this distinction between chastity and continence: chastity requires no effort, because it may result from constitution; whereas continency appears to be the consequence of a victory gained over ourselves. The term is usually applied to men, as chastity is to women. SEE CHASTITY.<\/p>\n
konti-nen-si (, egkrateuomai to have self-control or continency the Revised Version (British and American), to contain the King James Version): Paul, although he would that all men were like himself unmarried, yet advises that they should marry if they cannot control their sexual passions, and hold them in complete subjection to Christian motives (1Co 7:9). The same Greek verb is used in 1Co 9:25, and translated is temperate (the King James Version and the English Revised Version) of the athlete who during the period of training abstains from all indulgence in food, ‘drink, and sexual passion. For the general principle as expressed in substantive egkrateia (Act 24:25; Gal 5:23; 2Pe 1:6) and adjective egkrates (Tit 1:8) see TEMPERANCE; TEMPERATE.<\/p>\n
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 1Co 7:9<\/span>, RV; AV, “can (not) contain;” in 1Co 9:25<\/span>, “is temperate.” See TEMPERATE. <\/p>\n CONTINENCY Is that moral virtue by which we restrain concupiscence. There is this distinction between, chastity and continence: Chastity requires no effort, because it may result from constitution; whereas continency appears to be the consequence of a victory gained over ourselves. The term is most usually applied to men; as chastity is to women. See … Continue reading “Continency”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"