Mounce says [respectable] “refers to a person’s outward deportment or outward appearance.” Towner says it’s “an observable quality of behavior with an inward source.” He says that “respectable” appearing after self-control “is almost predictable.” It occurs frequently alongside “self-control” in the literature, the two together completing a picture of honorable and dignified bearing.” Inward self-control, outward respectability.