Verse 6.— And to knowledge, temperance. Temperance. This virtue consists in an ability to control yourself in all your conduct. This may be, and no doubt is, difficult, but the Christian is admonished to make this addition to his other virtues. And to temperance, patience. To your temperance you must add an unwavering and unflinching endurance of ail wrongs, evils and afflictions that come upon you for the truth's sake. A denial of the faith to escape suffering not only shows the absence of courage, but also of patience. So also bearing the wrong complainingly. Meekness shows patience. And to patience, godliness. Godliness. All your speech and all your deeds must conform to the requirements of God in relation thereto. So doing, you reach nearer and nearer the divine model.