Bible Verses about Self-control

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• Like a city that is broken down and without walls
  is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
  Proverbs 25:28desires
• For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  2 Timothy 1:7lovestrengthSpirit
• Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness; and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
  2 Peter 1:5-7faithgoodnessrelationships
• One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
  one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
  Proverbs 16:32peacepatience
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  Galatians 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
• So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
  James 1:19speakinglisteninganger
• Death and life are in the power of the tongue;
  those who love it will eat its fruit.
  Proverbs 18:21speakingblessingfruitfulness
• No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationaddiction
• So then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
  1 Thessalonians 5:6safety
• A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
  but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
  Proverbs 12:16angerwisdom
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• A fool vents all of his anger,
  but a wise man brings himself under control.
  Proverbs 29:11angerwisdom
• But I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 9:27judgmentbody
• Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  Romans 12:2blamelessobediencelife
• Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
  1 Corinthians 9:25rewardeternal life
• For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
  Ephesians 6:12Spiritheavenevil
• Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
  Remove your foot from evil.
  Proverbs 4:27evilrighteousnessfollowing
• Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
  2 John 1:8rewardwork
• I made a covenant with my eyes;
  how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  Job 31:1desirescovenantthoughts
• Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5marriagedevilsexuality
• 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 sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody