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ἀκρασία

Strong’s: G192

Associated OET lemmas: ἀκρασία

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: ἀκρασία; -ας

Constructions: ἀκρασία; ἀ-; κρατέω

Sense 1: lack of self-control, failure to control oneself

Semantic entry: 88.91

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control

Definition: to fail to exercise self-control

MAT 23:25: RV MAT 23:25 · LV MAT 23:25 · Read together MAT 23:25

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OET-RV MAT 23:25

25 “You religious teachers and Farisaios are hypocrites and will have a bad end, because you scrub the outsides of your cups and bowls, but the insides are still full of greed and selfishness.

OET-LV MAT 23:25

25 Woe to _you _all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites.
Because you _all _are _cleansing the part outside of _the cup and of _the dish, but inside they _are _being _full of theft and intemperance.

CO1 7:5: RV CO1 7:5 · LV CO1 7:5 · Read together CO1 7:5

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OET-RV CO1 7:5

5 Don’t deprive each other, except by mutual agreement so that you may devote yourselves to prayer for an agreed time, and then be together again, so that Satan can’t easily tempt you all because of your lack of self-control.

OET-LV CO1 7:5

5 Not be _defrauding one _another, if surely _not wishfully by harmonious for a_time, in _order _that you _all _may _have _leisure the for _prayer, and again with the same you _all _may _be, in _order _that not may _be _tempt you _all the Satan/(Sāţān), because _of the intemperance of _you _all.