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Self-Control

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἀκρατής

(Strong's #193 — Adjective — akrates — ak-rat'-ace )

"powerless" (a, negative, kratos, "strength"), is rendered "without self-control," in 2 Timothy 3:3 , RV; see INCONTINENT.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Self-Control'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/self-control.html. 1940.
 
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