Bible Verses about 'Self control'

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• A person without self-control
  is like a city with broken-down walls.
  Proverbs 25:28self-controldesires
• Better to be patient than powerful;
  better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatienceself-control
• But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
  Galatians 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
• In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
  2 Peter 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
• Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5marriagedevilself-control
• For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
  2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
• So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
  1 Peter 1:13graceJesusSpirit
• All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.
  1 Corinthians 9:25self-controlrewardeternal life
• Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
  James 3:2blamelessspeakingbody
• So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
  Romans 8:6Spiritpeacelife
• People with understanding control their anger;
  a hot temper shows great foolishness.
  Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
• That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• Those who control their tongue will have a long life;
  opening your mouth can ruin everything.
  Proverbs 13:3speakingwisdomlife
• God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
  James 1:26speaking
• Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
  Colossians 3:9-10lyinglifeconversion
• And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.
  Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerevil
• That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgmentbody
• Fools vent their anger,
  but the wise quietly hold it back.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdomself-control
• The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.
  1 Peter 4:7second comingend timesrest
• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
  1 Timothy 2:9-10beautyworshipmaterialism
• My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  Galatians 2:20faithSaviorlife
• Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
• For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation