Bible Verses about 'Self 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
  2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
• 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
• Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it.
  Colossians 3:9-10lyinglifeconversion
• 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
• 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
• Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• 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
• For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
  1 Peter 4:7second comingend timesrest
• 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
• 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
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present age.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• 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
• That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
  Ephesians 3:16-17faithloveSpirit