sophronos describes living with self-control amid ungodliness and worldly desires.

The attested use describes a self-controlled manner of living, contrasted with ungodliness and worldly desires in Titus 2:12.

1. Self-controlled manner of living · dominant

   In Titus 2:12, the adverb qualifies the call to live in contrast to renouncing ungodliness and worldly desires; the APB renders the surrounding instruction as living “self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.”

   Titus 2:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Titus 2:12, the APB presents the clause as living “self-controlled, upright, and godly lives”; The term's exact English correspondence cannot be isolated beyond that clause.