The Talk About "The Talk"

These six qualities are great talking points for parents to have with their children.
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Humility
To pursue humility means choosing to accept the fact that your knowledge and abilities are limited, and in light of that, you are regularly seeking help and graciously receiving advice and correction.

• This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word (Isaiah 66:2)
• All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5)
• Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life (Proverbs 22:4). 

Courage 
To pursue courage means choosing to do what is right despite the opposition of others or of your own desires (often the more difficult enemy to fight).

• Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong (1 Corinthians 16:13).
• So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me (Acts 27:25)
• Act with courage, and may the LORD be with those who do well. (2 Chronicles 19:11) 

Purity 
To pursue moral purity means choosing to live by the highest moral principles in both speech and physical relations, despite your own desires to do otherwise, and despite any external pressure to compromise.

• How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word (Psalm 119:9).
• Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity (1 Timothy 5:1–2)
• Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity (1 Timothy 4:12)
• Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure (1 Timothy 5:22).  

Faithfulness 
To pursue faithfulness means acting in integrity, keeping your word, and doing what is right before God, with fortitude and without complaint, because you trust God to give you the ability to complete all he has given you to do.

• So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful (1 Corinthians 4:1–2)
• Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD (Psalm 31:23–24).
• A faithful man will be richly blessed (Proverbs 28:20).

Selflessness 

To pursue selflessness means placing the well-being of others before your own needs and desires.

• An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment (Proverbs 18:1).
• Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others (Philippians 2:3–4).
• For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice (James 3:16). 

Self-control 

To pursue self-control means to live according to the Spirit of God, choosing to glorify God with our lives and deny the sinful nature when tempted to do otherwise. 

• Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8).
• Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control (Proverbs 25:28).
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22–23).

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