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is virtue within a person's innermost core. It is the opposite of covetousness and excess.
Temperance is not the same as self-control.
In fact, these are two very different attributes. Temperance and
self-control may appear to produce similar results in words and actions;
however, temperance is the fruit of a much deeper and stronger inner spiritual
control over one's thoughts, desires, feelings, and appetites.
While some people may be able to exercise self-control to avoid
vanity, anger, rage, violence, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, licentiousness,
and the vast array of other addictive and destructive tendencies of human nature, self-will and self-restraint and
self-determination can never produce genuine virtue, humility,
prudence, forgiveness, mercy, and temperance.
cf. Galatians 5:22-23 ~ 2 Peter 1:5-6
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