1) Vocabulary: Sophron.
A compound word: so from sos = “sound.”
Phron
from phren = “mind.” “A sound mind” is a good translation.
2) Mark 5:15; the man freed from Legion returned to his “right mind.”
Conclusion: Demons attack right thinking.
3) Romans 12:3b; sound judgement
is part of the thinking governed by
faith in
the body of Christ.
Conclusion:
Humble sound judgement toward fellow members of the
Body of
Christ is an important application of God’s word.
4) Titus 2:1-15; Older men
(2:2), young women (2:5), young men (2:6),
all Christians
(2:12) should be of sound mind for Christian witness.
5) 1 Peter 4:7; a sound mind for prayer in these end times.
6) 2 Timothy 1:7; a spirit
of sound judgement for a confident Christian
way of
Life.
7) 1 Timothy 2:9, 15; sound judgement and women in the Church.
8) 1 Timothy 3:2; sound judgement and the overseer. Also Titus 1:8.