Qualifications for Elders


1468 - VIGILANT / SELF-DISCIPLINED

1468 egkrates (eng-krat-ace')
from 1722 and 2904;
AV-temperate 1; 1
1) strong, robust
2) having power over, possessed of (a thing)
3) mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining
3a) controlling one's self, temperate, continent
NEW TESTAMENT USAGE

Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate <1468>;