Bible Verses about 'Control'

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• A man without self-control
  is like a city broken into and left without walls.
  Proverbs 25:28self-controldesires
• For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
  2 Peter 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
  Galatians 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
• For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
  2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
• Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5marriagedevilself-control
• Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
  1 Corinthians 9:25self-controlrewardeternal life
• But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgmentbody
• For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
  and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
  James 3:2blamelessspeakingbody
• For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
  Romans 8:6Spiritpeacelife
• Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
  1 Timothy 2:9-10beautyworshipmaterialism
• A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
  but a wise man quietly holds it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
  but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
  he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
  Proverbs 13:3speakingwisdomlife
• If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
  James 1:26speaking
• Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  1 Peter 1:13graceJesusSpirit
• But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  Galatians 3:22sintrustfaith