Bible Verses about 'Control'

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• Like a city breached, without walls,
  is one who lacks self-control.
  Proverbs 25:28self-controldesires
• For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
  2 Peter 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
• By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
  Galatians 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
• Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5marriagedevilself-control
• Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.
  1 Corinthians 9:25self-controlrewardeternal life
• For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;
  that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,
  not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
  2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
• One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
  and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.
  James 3:2blamelessspeakingbody
• But I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgmentbody
• To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
  Romans 8:6Spiritpeacelife
• A fool gives full vent to anger,
  but the wise quietly holds it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
  but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives;
  those who open wide their lips come to ruin.
  Proverbs 13:3speakingwisdomlife
• If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.
  James 1:26speaking
• Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• “Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God!”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.
  1 Peter 1:13graceJesusSpirit
• But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  Galatians 3:22sintrustfaith
• Also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
  1 Timothy 2:9-10beautyworshipmaterialism