Bible Verses about 'Control'

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• Like a city that is broken into and without walls
  So is a person who has no self-control over his spirit.
  Proverbs 25:28self-controldesires
• Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, 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
• Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5marriagedevilself-control
• Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
  1 Corinthians 9:25self-controlrewardeternal life
• For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
  2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
• For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
  And one who rules his spirit, than one who captures a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to rein in the whole body as well.
  James 3:2blamelessspeakingbody
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• But I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgmentbody
• For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.
  Romans 8:6Spiritpeacelife
• A fool always loses his temper,
  But a wise person holds it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• One who is slow to anger has great understanding;
  But one who is quick-tempered exalts foolishness.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• One who guards his mouth protects his life;
  One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
  Proverbs 13:3speakingwisdomlife
• If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
  James 1:26speaking
• Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  1 Peter 1:13graceJesusSpirit
• But the Scripture has confined everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  Galatians 3:22sintrustfaith
• Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive apparel, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
  1 Timothy 2:9-10beautyworshipmaterialism